Depending on what you are attempting to set/pass you could use the -i or -d switch and pass values into the automator command line too. Open a terminal and type 'man automator' to see more information on the automator command line tool
Note that AppleScripts run by osascript send their output back to the command line. If the script does things with the GUI, such as a display message command, the script will fail with the error test.scpt: execution error: No user interaction allowed. (-1713)
Invoking Automator Workflows From The Command Line
Every few minutes I need to click a button on Yosemite's menu bar and select an option. I'd like to automate this task by somehow recording this action and scheduling it to execute via cron / command line.
If you want to type a command directly into Quicksilver and run it you can use the Run Command in Shell action or the Run a Text command in Terminal action. The first runs the command in a shell from Quicksilver and displays the result in a new Quicksilver command window, the second does so in a new Terminal window. You can also use these actions with a command from the Bash Command History catalog source. If you look through your history often you might want a trigger for Bash Command History (Catalog) (Show Contents). These commands can be handy when the Dock gets confused. E.g., you can do killall Dock with the Run Command in Shell action to kill the Dock and have it automatically restarted.
An Automator command line parameter is identified by a dash or forward slash immediately preceding a single character followed by a token(s) which sets the parameter's value(s), all separated by blanks. If a token contains embedded blanks, it must be enclosed in double quote marks.
-l This parameter immediately appends event log information to the specified file but does not add Graphics event commands. If you use it in conjunction with the -g parameter, it must follow the -g parameter to separate the keystroke command trace from summary-only information which is appended to the specified file.
You can automate extract refresh tasks using the Tableau Data Extract Command-Line Utility. This is a command-line utility that comes with Tableau Desktop, through which you can refresh published extract data sources or append data to them from a file.
You can use a plain text editor, such as Notepad or Text Edit, to create a config (configuration) file that you can use with tableau refreshextract or tableau addfiletoextract. A config file can be useful if you expect to update the same data source regularly over time. Instead of having to type the same options each time you run a command, you specify the config file. A config file also has the advantage of not exposing user names and passwords on the command line.
The Mac has some great tools for automation. For the super nerdy, bash scripts on the command line, python or ruby scripts (or even php or javascript for that matter) can work wonders. There's also AppleScript, which is supposed to be a layperson's scripting language but, despite all my programming experience, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.
Many Unix tools and scripts generate output that references specific file and line positions (for example, compile errors). The bbresults command-line tool allows you to present this output in a easy-to-navigate GUI results window within BBEdit.
You can configure Imposition Wizard to automatically process PDF files when you place them into a specific folder. Imposition Wizard supports command line processing, so all you need is to detect that the file is placed into a folder and then run Imposition Wizard for that file.
Home editions of Windows do not support Docker Desktop. Instead, Docker Toolbox needs to be installed. If you are a Windows 10 Home user, the commands to download DST3, run and stop containers need to be run from within the Docker QuickStart Terminal:
Automator is a macOS application for creation of workflows for automating repetitive tasks (in this specific case, starting and stopping a docker container). The icon features a robot holding a pipe, a reference to pipelines. Here we will show how to create two Automator workflows. One for launching a DST3 container and one for stopping it.
Learn about the basics of PowerShell. This cross-platform command-line shell and scripting language is built for task automation and configuration management. You'll learn basics like what PowerShell is, what it's used for, and how to use it.
In the previous lesson we created a bash script that runs a given command line in a new Terminal window. Now we'll see how to use Automator to make an instance of that available as a menu item in Finder.
Instructor: [0:00] In a previous lesson, we created term command, a script that runs a given command line in a new terminal window. A link to that lesson is in this lesson's description. I can say, "VI input.txt" to open the file in the current window. I can say, "term command VI input.txt" to open it in a new window.
[2:13] Then we CD to the directory where the file is and invoke term command by its full path name of wherever we have saved it on our computer. We surround file with quotes in case it contains a space. Since we're writing a script doubly nested inside other scripts, we not only have to escape the quotes with backslashes in order to pass them literally to the invoking script, but we also have to escape both the backslash and the quote with backslashes as well.
If you use the $FILE or $SHA parameters, then these will cause the action to appear on context menus associated with files or commits, and will pass that context to the command. So for example you could have a deployment script which took the $SHA parameter, then right-click on a commit and run your deployment script for that specific commit right from within SourceTree.
Great feature, but it would be even cooler if there would be a %LINENUMBER Parameter or similar, which would be effective if a Hunk in a file is selected, so I could jump to the specific line in the editor (TextMate e.g. supports this in the mate command with -l ), if multiple files are selected or no hunk, then the Parameter would simply be null / empty
How about a $BRANCH variable to inject the currently checked out branch into the command? I have a custom action for force-push that I run after doing an interactive rebase of a dev branch from the master/rc branches in my project, but I always have to fetch and update any other remotely-tracked branches before I do it or risk clobbering them with the global forced-push.
Fantastic!But, I find create this command; git difftool 3c31223 FILE.TXTThis command i use for modify my actual file from my tool compare. Sourcetree create allways file temp, and not is possible modify from SourceTree.But if I create Custom $FILE have path and $SHA have 2 two hash.Is posible have $SHA1 and $FILEONLY ? Or who create this command ? Thanks!
Use the Task Execute Command to run a command on Agents. This allows you to schedule any action that can be performed by a command line. For example, you can use this Task to execute scripts or to automate the export of the results of a Job. See Exporting Job results to XML.
Normally, the vacuum command is accessible only through the Mac's command-line interface using an app such as Terminal. But thanks to the wonder of Automator, an app that ships with your Mac, you can create a simple three-step script that will run the vacuum tool. And you don't have to know how to write a script, use the command line, or even understand how the vacuum tool works.
Data Detectors support in creating Automator service workflows has been enhanced in Lion. Text objects, such as URLs, dates, or phone numbers, can now be both detected and filtered from selected text used as input to service workflows. This means that you now have the option to use either the entire text selection containing the text objects as input to the workflow, or use just the detected text objects themselves as input.
If you take photos, you may want to share them to your website or to an online gallery. If your images are not in JPEG format, you may need to export them from an image editing app, or you may need to convert them. If you do this often, you may find it easier to use your original images and convert them en masse. This Automator workflow will allow you to do that. Simply drag and drop images on its icon, and it converts them in a flash.
Automator is an application developed by Apple Inc. for macOS used to create workflows for automating repetitive tasks into batches for quicker alteration via point-and-click (or drag and drop). This saves time and effort over human intervention to manually change each file separately. Automator enables the repetition of tasks across a wide variety of programs, including Finder, Safari, Calendar, Contacts and others. It can also work with third-party applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop or Pixelmator. The icon features a robot holding a pipe, a reference to pipelines, a computer science term for connected data workflows. Automator was first released with Mac OS X Tiger (10.4).[1][2]
Automator comes with a library of Actions (file renaming, finding linked images, creating a new mail message, etc.) that act as individual steps in a Workflow document.[3][5] A Workflow document is used to carry out repetitive tasks. Workflows can be saved and reused. Unix command line scripts and AppleScripts can also be invoked as Actions. The actions are linked together in a Workflow. The Workflow can be saved as an application, Workflow file or a contextual menu item. Options can be set when the Workflow is created or when the Workflow is run. A workflow file created in Automator is saved in /Users/User Name/Library/Services.[6][7][8]
If you've questions about tdsr, feel free to send an email to 3 Mouse Technology and we'll try to get you an answer as quickly as possible. If you are interested in using a command line effectively on OSX, please do check out the software, post comments here and if you find a bug, please report it on the GitHub system to ensure Tyler will see it. If you're a Python programmer and would like to participate in the future of tdsr, you can get the code from GitHub and Tyler will consider all push requests. 2ff7e9595c
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