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Big Cat

pudge on 2002-11-19T16:02:22

Ranchero Software has Big Cat, which allows you to call scripts from a contextual menu, on files in the Finder, or on text in many applications. You can process with compiled AppleScripts, or shell scripts (including Perl scripts).

Here's a perl script I keep in the Big Cat folder called "Set Type -≶ BBEdit".

#!/usr/bin/perl use MacPerl 'SetFileInfo'; SetFileInfo('R*ch', 'TEXT', @ARGV);

Ahhhhhhhh.

Now Playing: Henry Kissinger - Monty Python (Sings)

Cool.

ct on 2002-11-20T15:28:57

That's pretty darn slick. Though I was cursing it at first, I had a brain freeze and put things in /Library/... instead of ~/Library/... and it didn't quite work :)

What I'd love to use this for is a real right click root menu, like I used to use under X11/blackbox. I had every app I ever needed on that menu, including a folder containing an item which fired off a Konsole or other terminal ssh'ed into a specific host.

If this had the ability to organize your scripts in folders and were payware, I'd gladly pay for it.

Now I just need to find an AppleScript reference so I can write something that fires up Terminal.app and tells it to ssh somewhere.