[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.2_rc4

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Thu Dec 18 14:25:42 PST 2008


On Dec 18, 2008, at 14:02, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> PS. Off topic gratuitous anecdote: When I first found out about
> Automator, I thought this looked neat, so I tried putting together
> some simple automator workflow. Now as part of that I wanted a shell
> command, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't even drag a shell
> script action into the workflow. In the end I narrowed it down to the
> fact that I was using an oddball login shell. I walked away from my
> little experiment in disgust and haven't looked at Automator since.
> That is the sort of trouble you get for making assumptions about shell
> syntax, I imagine. (No, I never managed to find out what it was that
> automator tried to do that would fail with my shell.)

Do you have a radar number for this?  I'd like to follow the issue  
since your outrage at these sort of assumptions is something I share  
and should be fixed.




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