Hello, I have read through the documentation and searched the forum, but was not able to find an answer to this question. So, at the risk of asking a very basic question: can anyone help me with this macro? This is what I want to achieve: every time I add a PDF to a specific folder, I want the CLI…

If I'm not mistaken, you have to set a variable to %TriggerValue% and then use the method shown in the WIKI to access KM Variables: https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Execute_a_Shell_Script

DanThomas is right, but just to be clear how this works: [KMTriggerValue] Note that in a shell script you don't use % but you do need to prefix with $KMVAR_

[image] roelvangils: I want to become better at this! See: Execute a Shell Script action Scripting (Manual) Scripting Best Macro List

Thanks for the help! I now understand how to access KM variables, but I have ran into a new issue. That works fine now. I can rm or cat the file that was added to the folder, no problem. The error message I get is related to the command I am running: /usr/local/bin/ocrmypdf \""$KMVAR_path\"" \""$K…

[image] roelvangils: /usr/local/bin/ocrmypdf \""$KMVAR_path\"" \""$KMVAR_path\"" -l nld --rotate-pages --deskew So there's a little confusion here, which isn't a big deal because, well, this stuff is confusing at first. Long story short, you only need one set of "quotes" around variables and…

Thanks so much, @tjluoma ! However, as it turned out, the terminal command was fine, but I had to explicitly add /usr/local/bin to the default path in KM. The script works fine now.