Despite its relative obscurity among users, I've learned to appreciate its value.Īpple offers a number of its own services-like one that supports dictionary lookup on a selected word-that work with the platform's standard applications. A brief and unscientific poll of Mac enthusiasts revealed that few actually use the Services menu. Many services are context-sensitive and designed to process or operate on user input. One of the most compelling features of Automator is support for building services-headless applications that are pervasively accessible throughout the operating system. I've used Automator over the past week to build simple applications that replace some of my personal shell scripts.
Although it's not as mighty as the command line for improvisational automation, it's useful for defining stand-alone operations that you want to be able to repeat. In my quest to tear the power of the command line out of the terminal, I have found that Apple's Automator tool is a powerful ally.
Although Apple's operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I know and love, I want to spend less time in a terminal window and start cultivating workflows that integrate better with the Mac user experience.
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I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux.
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