Comments on: OS X service to filter selected text through a shell command

By: René

René — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:37:04 +0000

Removing the cat in the last line made it work for me. Thanks!

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:44:05 +0000

That works.

Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:16:11 +0000

What app are you trying to use it from? I’ve noticed some apps are a little dumb in the way they report the data type to the Services menu provider. For example, if I select the text I’m currently typing in Chromium, nothing comes up in Services at all. Try TextEdit (copying and pasting into it, if need be)

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:18:25 +0000

I did reboot and ‘Filter through Shell Command’ is checked under ‘text’ in Keyboard preferences and I still do not see the command when I go to Services.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:16:09 +0000

Hi Ron,

That should do it - have you tried rebooting or logging out and back in again? There's a chance you may also need to specifically enable it in Keyboard Preferences (in System Prefs)

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:01:38 +0000

I installed 'Filter Through Shell Command' in my user Library/Services, not the root Library/Services on my Mac OS X 10.6.3, but I do not see the 'Filter Through Shell Command'. Does this run on OS X 10.6.3? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:41:39 +0000

Hi Frantisek,

Actually, this is more targeted for the command line-fiends ;-)

There appear to be a few products out there that are more targeted for normal users - A quick glance reveals two possibilities (I haven't tried them): Text Wielder and maybe TextExtras.

Cheers!

By: nikola

nikola — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:51:41 +0000

thanks i tyred modifying yours (replacing sort etc) but it never worked.. it never occurred to me to replace all text, guess i’ll never understand applescript :)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:33:11 +0000

Hi Nikola,

You can make that change pretty easily – if you double-click the workflow, it’ll open up in Automator; then you can replace all the text in the “Run Shell Script” panel with just your command (“sed ….”). Then save, and you’re done.

By: nikola

nikola — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:21:22 +0000

i give up, can you make me one that do not ask for input but just runs “sed ‘s/\./ /g;s/\-/ /g;s/\_/ /g’” thanks in advance

By: Frantisek Jilek

Frantisek Jilek — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:56:01 +0000

Hi,

Any chance we could get GUI for commands in future? :-) There is not so many comand line friens as mose clickers :-)

By: 10.6: Service to filter selected text using a shell command « Apple News Daily

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:31:12 +0000

[...] like replacing text with regular expressions, sorting lists or swapping fields around. Grab the Filter through Shell Command service, extract the zip file and put the service into /Library/Services. You may need to authenticate to [...]