Hi,
About the shell script wiki – does this rule still work?
"Keyboard Maestro sets the environment variables for the script to include all your variables, using a prefix of KMVAR_ and your variable name with spaces changed in to underscores (_). For example, your Keyboard Maestro “File Name” variable will be available as the environment variable KMVAR_File_Name ."
I find that it's not working if the KM variable has spaces:
Hey @som,
When asking for help please post complete macros that can be tested – preferably the simplest possible test-case that demonstrates your problem.
Macros contain fiddly details that cannot be conveyed through prose or images, and these details are often key to solving a given problem.
I can't test your macro without reconstructing it, and that's not an efficient use of my time.
This works perfectly well on my macOS 10.14.6 Mojave system with Keyboard Maestro 10.2:
KM Variable With Spaces to Execute Shell Script Action v1.00.kmmacros (5.5 KB)
Take Care,
Chris
(Keyboard Maestro Moderator)
Hi ccstone,
Thanks for your reply.
It works if I just replace the $KMVAR_image_folder to the exact folder path.
Here is my macro:
Download: rename image of folder.kmmacros (3.4 KB)
That's quite a bit different!
It's failing because you are passing in a ~ path from your variable, and the ~ prefix doesn't expand to your home folder path when it is quoted. But you can use a "Filter" action set to "Expand Tilde" to get a full path to pass to the script. Try this example, first with the second action disabled, then with it enabled, to see what I mean:
tilde expansion.kmmacros (2.3 KB)
Nice improvement on the shell script. Here's what I'd got to before you posted (note the use of a Local variable in KM, something you should consider unless you want the value to persist or be available to other macros):
#!/bin/bash
cd "$KMVAR_Local__image_folder"
i=1
for file in *
do
mv "$file" "$i.${file##*.}"
((i=i+1))
done