Scripts in Finder

Hi,

I just learnt that one can make click-able shell scipts in finder which is a great news.

However, I was wondering if one can have shell scrips that will execute on particular file groups using write-click in finder.

For example:
I have a shell script that will compile *.tex file, updates references, and produces pdf file. I can run it from terminal and it works.

I'd like to be able to find m *.tex file in Finder. Upon using right-click I'd like to be able to select my script and run it. Can automator be deployed in Finder to execute shell scripts?

Right now I fairly comfortable with bash scripting, but know pretty much nothing about apple-script. That might of course change once I run my mac full time. But then again, I find shell scripts "universal" across platforms which is a plus.

As always, I appreciate any comments and/or suggestions.

Cheers, Radek

Thanks, that sounds good. I am on Lion; I should have said that in my original message.

R>

kryten2 said:

If you're on Leopard you save your workflow as a Finder plug-in so it's available in the Finder. If you're on SL or Lion you create a service.

More info : http://macosxautomation.com/
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2065/_index.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/applescript/conceptual/applescriptlangguide/introduction/ASLR_intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000983-CH208-SW1

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Coming back to this post after finally getting my Air ....

I went through the links and I do not believe it really answers my question. What I was hoping to do is this:

1. say I have data file "parabola.dat" that has two columns of numerical data;

2. I do have a bash script that takes two-column data file, runs gnuplot (CLI plotting program), and displays my data in a 2d scatter plot;

3. I now want to be able to go to Finder and find my "parabola.dat" file. When I click on the file I'd like to have an option to select my script described above to plot my data straight from Finder. This functionality is built-in into linux file browsers such as thunar or nautilus.

Can anybody tell me if this is possible in Finder? If not in finder, is there different file browser for OSX that can do that?

Thanks. R>

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Added: It seems that perhaps Path Finder has that functionality?