Studying Command Line Arguments for Shortcut

You possibly can catch the enter from the command line by checking the Use as fast motion choice. You do not want to test any suboptions reminiscent of Finder or Providers menu.

• Create new shortcut within the Shortcuts app.
• Give the shortcut a correct title, I’ll use the title Instance shortcut title right here.
• Click on the (i) within the sidebar on the best and test Use as fast motion. A Obtain enter block ought to seem on the Shortcuts canvas, set to Obtain [...] enter from [Quick Actions].
• Set the content material kind you want to obtain to Textual content. The block ought to now say Obtain [Text] enter from [Quick Actions].
• Now test the Present output choice in the best sidebar. A Cease and Output block seems on the canvas.
• Set the output to Shortcut enter, which means it’s going to output what (textual content) the shortcut acquired.
• To exhibit textual content manipulation, drag in a Exchange textual content block in between the enter and output blocks, set it to switch textual content noes with hai.

There at the moment are 3 ways to offer the shortcuts command line instrument along with your enter. On this case the shortcut we have created outputs plain textual content. So we’ll want a trick to disclose what textual content shortcuts returns: put | tee on the finish of each command.

Passing textual content: utilizing stdin redirect

On this instance, the <<< redirect places the string Oh hai into the stdin of the shortcuts command.

$ shortcuts run 'Instance shortcut title' <<< "Oh noes" | tee
Oh hai

Passing textual content: pipe textual content and set --input-path to stdin

On this case we echo our textual content, pipe it to shortcuts, which we offer with the -i or --input-path choice, and we set that choice to - which suggests stdin. The title of the choice --input-path is deceptive in that sense, as it will probably additionally settle for textual content. --input might have been a greater illustration.

$ echo "Oh noes" | shortcuts run 'Instance shortcut title' -i - | tee
Oh hai

Passing information: use -i or --input-path and a filename

If we do not set --input-path to stdin, it is ready to settle for a filename or a path. I’ve not examined this by however it seems that, for instance, the Extract Textual content from Picture block will decide up textual content as a filename to a picture.

This instance would take the trail of a picture file and output the extracted OCR textual content to the terminal:

$ shortcuts run 'Get textual content from picture' --input-path image-with-text.jpg --output-type public.plain-text | tee
Lorum ipsum

The public.plain-text is a “Uniform Sort Identifier” and you’ll search to discover a full record of these for the macOS model you’re working. For some shortcuts, specifying the output kind may be the distinction between getting again plain textual content or, for instance, uncooked knowledge.