Top "Automator" questions

An application, first appearing in Apple's OS X, providing a point and click interface for creating macros to automate tasks

Automator script to rename files on Mac OS X

Is there an easy way to use Automator on OS X to replace spaces in filenames with underscores?

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Automator not working with Google Chrome

I am trying to use automomator to control my UI and Google Chrome, but after recording my actions (watch me …

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Remove last argument from argument list of shell script (bash)

This question concerns a bash script that is run in automator osx. I am using automator actions to get and …

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Automator: How do I use the Choose from List action?

I'm trying to create a Service using Automator that simply calls textutil convert. Eventually, I want to be able to …

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AppleScript or Automator to click on menus in an application?

I'm not sure if this is do-able via AppleScript and/or Automator…but I'd like to be able to: a) …

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Unix Bash script to embolden/underline/italicize specific text

I've been trawling the web trying to find examples of Unix Bash script that can handle basic text styling (bold/…

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Apple's Automator: compression settings for jpg?

When I run Apple's Automator to simply cut a bunch of images in their size Automator will also reduce the …

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Open terminal and run a command from automator to open two tabs and run a command

What I want to do is run an automator script. Where what happens is it opens terminal with two tabs …

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Access file name in Automator from Folder Action

I'm trying to create a simple Automator workflow that will prompt me for where to move and rename a PDF …

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How to call Automator variable in Applescript ?

So I have a an Applescript that displays a dialogue box and then automator sets a variable as the entry …

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