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. I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux.
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