Though Keyboard Maestro is not a free program, it worth every penny of the modest $36 price tag.
There are several tutorials online that I reference in the section about Automator below.īut in this article, I want to also explain why you should consider using Keyboard Maestro instead of Automator. If you haven’t dabbled in Mac automation yet, then it’s worth your time to open Automator and build a few workflows. Automator is now somewhat outdate, but there are several online tutorials about how to use it, and I may even write a few new ones for this site. If you do a quick search of this site, you will discover that I have yet to write an article or produce a video about using Automator, mainly because the program lacks the rich automation actions and features found in Keyboard Maestro. It's important to note that "Pass input" is set to "as arguments" - we want to process the inputs as individual arguments as opposed to a bunch of text sent to stdin.Apple’s classic Mac automation application Automator has been around for more than a decade, but is it still useful to Mac users, and how does it compare to similar Mac automation programs like Keyboard Maestro? It's an executable file of awk code starting with #!/usr/bin/awk -f. In this case the name of the awk script is "ptnxdump". "Run Shell Script" is where the awk script is invoked. "Get Value of Variable" retrieves the paths of the input files that were previously saved away and outputs them the be used as arg2, arg3. "Run AppleScript" grabs the path of the Automator script and outputs it to be used as arg1 later. "Set Value of Variable" this line saves a way the paths of the file(s) that were drag and dropped onto the Automator script. The obvious things to try get you the path of the Automator app itself which is not generally useful. Unfortunately, there's no straightforward way to get the path of the Automator script. I decided I wanted to the awk script to be a sibling of the Automator script - you distribute them as a pair and people only need to keep them in the same directory for everything to work. You might have a directory where you keep your awk code, but anyone you decide to share it with is unlikely to. The first issue is where to put the awk script itself. Not rocket science, but it took a bit of googling and experimentation to get it working so I figure it's worth sharing.Ī picture of the Automator script pretty much says it all, but I'll elaborate a bit for folks unfamiliar with Automator. drag a text file onto it and pop up a window with the awk output.
Recently I wanted to give an awk script a drag and drop interface.
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