Well, Thank you Jon! that of course did the trick. Many thanks!! The only problem I see is that I miss the contents of the clipboard every time the script is run but I can live with it. :-)
Regards, On May 29, 6:02 pm, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bleh, stupid automatic formatting. Make sure to remove the line break > after \"v\" in the command I posted above > > On May 29, 11:56 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Instead of returning the results of the script to Quicksilver, have > > the script paste the results. Adding this to the end of your script > > should do the job (replacing $foo with whatever is appropriate in your > > script, of course): > > > printf $foo | pbcopy > > osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"v\" > > using command down" > > > Note that we are using printf instead of echo because echo > > automatically inserts a newline at the end of the text it outputs, > > which is not what we want in this case. > > > On May 29, 8:52 am, jrh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry if this is just too easy but I have been trying to do it with no > > > luck... > > > > I am trying to concatenate several commands in one trigger. What I > > > want to do is get the selected text of the current window and send it > > > a shell script as input. Then paste the output of the script into the > > > current window. I can do it in the command window in several commands > > > by getting the selected text and pass it to a script with leaves the > > > output in the command windows and I can paste it as text. > > > > However, is it possible to do it in one trigger?? > > > > Regards,
