How to open a macro to edit by name (using some script)

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You can even combine the two, and use AppleScript from the OSX command line, as explained here:

Call KBM Macro from the Shell with `osascript`?

Hey @gmark, I expect the easiest way is to use the Keyboard Maestro URL-scheme. #!/usr/bin/env bash open kmtrigger://macro=AFB1EE80-3A76-4E58-A0E8-4C742CBC5C5F The last parameter is the UUID of the macro. If/when you run AppleScript from Bash I recommend making it readable. One-liners may seem streamlined, but when you have to maintain them they can be very hard to read. #!/usr/bin/env bash read -r -d '' asCmdStr <<'EOF' tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" do script "AFB…

I didn't see this mentioned in the thread above, so I've decided to add this here.