Comments on: Passing Multiple Automator Variables to a Shell Script

By: dannystaple

dannystaple — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:32:35 +0000

@tamer Yes – $1 and $2 will represent the first two variables presented.
Quoting them ensures that they are kept each as a single argument even if they contain spaces.
Anyway – this was quite helpful. It is a bit of a shame that automator variables are not simply exposed as environment variables for the scripts (rather like the parameters in jenkins) – that would be kind of awesome.

By: Fabiosan

Fabiosan — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:24:27 +0000

Very helpful. I am now able to set the input to the path of a folder and then its file list.

By: Tamer

Tamer — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:11:45 +0000

This is indeed helpful, but I am trying to use two file names in the same line of the script:

pdfdiff.py -d opendiff A.pdf B.pdf

It is not clear how to do that. Should I be doing:

pdfdiff.py -d opendiff "$1" "$2"?

Also, the sample download does not work for me either as the permissions are not set.

Thanks much.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:24 +0000

Hi Corey–

A very helpful tutorial. I'm trying to put an automator flow together and this was just what I was looking for. Just thought I'd mention that the the sample download doesn't have the correct permissions set. I get an access denied error. Thanks!