Any #Automator #ShellScript experts care to help?

I created the following script to copy the first 6 characters of a selected filename to the clipboard. But the clipboard item ends up with a hard return after the characters. Is there a way to put a stop to that?

For the second time in my life I thought of something macOS Automator might be able to do for me, and for the second time in my life that’s been an hour wasted and, no, Automator can’t do anything for me.

#apple #macos #automator

I'm trying to reuse an old iPad 2 as a photo frame and I just found out it doesn't even know about any photos before 1970. What's significant about that year? 1970-01-01 is the unix epoch. I'd laugh if this wasn't so pathetic.

I loaded over 6,000 photos on the iPad but it seems that half are blank squares. I used Automator's Pixelmator Pro scaler to downsize the photo's to the iPad native resolution. I should know better than to trust Apple software.

#Apple #iPad #Automator #PixelmatorPro

#Apple folks, what is the best way to monitor a folder under #macOS and invoke a shell script/command when new files are added?

I want to have a PDF-inbox, which gets OCRt whenever I add a new file. Currently my NAS does this via cronjob and I need a better solution.

#Automator ? #FSWatch ?

Perhaps new Automator "Otto" icon for #macOSTahoe in the future?

(still nowhere near as good as the original)

#WWDC25 #macOS #Automator

Look at how they've massacred my boy... #automator Also the QuickLook background has the new Glass effect.

#macOSTahoe #WWDC25

I just put together a little Python script / Automator action for converting JSON color palettes to GPL. I set it up so I could export JSON palettes from Sip right into my Aseprite palettes folder and have them converted automatically, but you can also run the converter script as-is. https://github.com/JRiggles/JSON2GPL

#foss #colorpalette #aseprite #automator #macos