Links – Page 5 – Scripting OS X

JSON Helper for AppleScript

Looks like an interesting tool to enhance AppleScript functionality. I also like the way they distribute it as an App through the App Store.

JSON Helper for AppleScript.

John Gruber: The unlikely persistence of AppleScript

I’d be totally remiss not to mention this, just go and read it:

The unlikely persistence of AppleScript

Control the Finder with the Terminal

Interesting approach to connecting the Finder more with the Terminal.

Control the Finder with the Terminal – Mac OS X Hints.

Personally I am satisfied with just using “open .” from the Terminal and dragging a folder from the Finder to the Terminal icon to open a Terminal window and cd there right away.

Automatic screen shot sharing with Dropbox and Automator

Automatic screen shot sharing with Dropbox and Automator – Matteo Agosti.

Assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail outgoing accounts

Mountain Lion 101: Assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail outgoing accounts | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

I have used this setting for Mail in the past and am really glad that Mountain Lion makes it work again.

Add URLs to Reading List automatically from e-mails

Add URLs to Reading List automatically from e-mails – Mac OS X Hints.

Script to Delete ‘Where From’ Metadata

Delete ‘Where From’ metadata from files – Mac OS X Hints.

I knew I would have to do this often, so instead of running a shell script every time I wanted to strip the Where From, I wrote an AppleScript

This is why and how you write scripts. 🙂

Ten Simple Automator Workflows

This article includes ten more little known Automator hacks, not included in the guide, that you can create in a few easy steps.

on makeuseof.com. (Thanks to @marrathon.)

Shell Loop Interaction with SSH

If you have a bash script with a while loop that reads from stdin and uses ssh inside that loop, the ssh command will drain all remaining data from stdin1. This means that only the first line of data will be processed.

I encountered this issue yesterday2. This website explains why the behavior occurs and how to avoid it.

A flawed method to run commands on multiple systems entails a shell while loop over hostnames, and a Secure Shell SSH connection to each system. However, the default standard input handling of ssh drains the remaining hosts from the while loop

from Shell Loop Interaction with SSH.

This is not only true for ssh but for any command in the loop that reads from stdin by default [↩]
I won’t go into details here, since it is for a very specialized purpose. I will say that it involved jot, ssh, an aging Solaris based network appliance, and some new fangly XML/Web 2.0 [↩]

Convert Numbers Files to Excel, Word and PDF

John C Welch has posted two scripts that convert Numbers files.