When putting a workflow in debug mode, display stdout too

[adcurtin]

I made a keyboard shortcut to trigger a script, but it wasn't working.

 

I stumbled across debug mode, and as soon as I tried the shortcut, I saw this:

 

 

[2016-08-28 21:48:58][ERROR: action.script] /Users/adcurtin/bin/NoSleepToggle: line 4: NoSleepCtrl: command not found

/Users/adcurtin/bin/NoSleepToggle: line 11: NoSleepCtrl: command not found

 

Great, super easy solution: use the full path in the script.

 

However, I was curious what the path was, so I dropped an 'echo $PATH' in the script, but debug mode doesn't show stdout for some reason, only stderr. This is the first time I've ever had to use 1>&2 in a bash script (which showed me the PATH used is /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)

 

My suggestion is simply to also display stdout in debug mode (or an option to).

[deanishe]

You should use echo $PATH > /dev/stderr instead.
 
STDOUT is only for the data Alfred should pass to the next action. If you write anything else to STDOUT, your workflow won't work as expected. If it's a Script Filter, you will break it completely by invalidating the XML/JSON output.
 
In the debugger, set Log to "All information" instead of "Interesting information". That will also show element input/output (i.e. STDOUT).