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		jmdeldin on Aug 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shell script Mac Apps This seems more cumbersome than opening AppleScript Editor, writing the following, and saving the script as an app. `do shell script "my script"` Despite being an obnoxious language, AppleScript is pretty handy for distributing shell scripts onto non-technical users' machines.

thatjoshguy on Aug 26, 2012 [–]

I've recently fallen in love with Automator. Although it make have a few limitations, you can get around it by embedding AppleScript or Python.

In two minutes I made a quick and dirty system wide workflow to download the selected URL.

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