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I don't know how well it would work, but you could try running something like this in AppleScript Editor. repeat tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" set p to propert …

Could you use curl or wget instead? for u in $(cat urls.txt); do curl -L "$u"; done > output.txt brew install wget wget -i urls.txt -U mozilla -O output.txt

This would work with multiple files and filenames with special characters: for f in "$@"; do [[ ! -f $f ]] && continue text=$(cat "$f") printf %s "${text//stringToBeReplaced/${f##*/}}" > …

Using shell scripting, you could do something like this: wget $(curl $(<urls.txt) | grep -o 'http[^"]*_small.jpg' | sed 's/_small/_large/')

I don't know why, but it seems to save the image as a 201x201 pixel tiff file. You could also install imagesnap with brew install imagesnap and then use something like /usr/local/bin/imagesnap ~/Desk …

page: SYNOPSIS automator [-v] [-i input] [-D name=value ...] workflow DESCRIPTION automator runs the specified workflow. … To create or edit a workflow, use the Automator application. …

Using launchd, you could save the property list below as ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.stackexchange.apple.65970.plist, and then load it with launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.stackexchange.apple …

Create a service like this and give it a shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services: There's a bug in 10.7 and 10.8 where the shortcuts for services don't always work …

You could use a Run Shell Script action like this: for f in *;do [[ $f =~ (.+ [0-9]+)x([0-9]+ .+) ]]&&mv "$f" "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}${BASH_REMATCH[2]}";done;exit 0 Or if the filenames don't contain o …

.* pattern from the end, and ${base: -3} expands to the last three characters. [[ $target ]] is equivalent to [[ -n $target ]], or it tests if $target is set and not empty. exit 0 makes Automator not display …

I don't have any version of Final Cut, but from the MacScripter search results it appears like at least the older versions weren't scriptable. Anyway, have you looked at its AppleScript dictionary (by …

I don't know how backward-compatible they are, but you can also save scripts as applications from AppleScript Editor. Another option might be to use Platypus. Platypus is a developer tool for the …

pass=$(osascript -e 'tell app (path to frontmost application as text) text returned of (display dialog "Enter password:" default answer "") end') for f in "$@"; do printf %s "$pass" | openssl enc …

-v: $ automator -v ~/Library/Services/lock.workflow/ Starting Automator… Run AppleScript is running Run AppleScript is finished The Automator workflow has completed. … There are several issues with using Automator services to assign shortcuts to scripts though. See this question. …

If you can use a shell script (or do shell script), awk supports associative arrays with string keys and fast lookup. $ cat widths.txt 2.tif 600 1.tif 500 4.tif 700 $ cat heights.txt 4.tif 1000 2.tif …