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Agree to all points, haven’t been using one yet, even though it sounds quite powerful: Automator. Do you have any good examples?
by harha 4y ago
Agree to all points, haven’t been using one yet, even though it sounds quite powerful:
Automator. Do you have any good examples?
- rollcat 4y agoIt's been replaced by Shortcuts; both are basically a drag&drop graphical language for automating simple system tasks. You can also escape to raw shell or AppleScript (which in turn allows you to script any GUI) if necessary. Results of one block are piped to another, and operations range from very high level to very low level, so you can easily make stuff like "take input file, run OCR, and submit the text to this URL". There's integrations with HomeKit (smart home), many system services, third-party apps can also add actions. You can add actions as dock icons, context menus, share sheets, etc. It's also synced between all your devices, you can tell your HomePod: "Hey Siri, shutdown the homelab", and your lackrack goes quiet. It's extremely cumbersome if you'd try to use it as a general-purpose programming language (I've tried implementing UUID4 just as a benchmark and gave up pretty fast), but very intuitive for simple tasks like that.
- harha 4y agoThanks for the explanation. Just discovered: Shortcuts actually has a gallery with a lot of examples. Also I can let it run shell scripts (at least on the Mac), so it looks like I'll be able to get inputs from other programs to another script easily (using pbpaste)