macOS Automator plug-in to hide/unhide files

[richard.mac]

I want to make an Automator plug-in to hide/unhide a single Finder item. atm i have two plug-ins which are shown below.



how would i change the shell script to have just one plug-in? im thinking this loop

if "hidden"
do chflags hidden "$@"
else
do chflags nohidden "$@"

would do the job but im not too sure on how to do shell script loops.

 

[richard.mac]

im thinking maybe i shouldnt have a single action to unhide a file as i wouldnt be able to click on it when invisible files are hidden. instead i should just use the show/hide invisible files action i have and then the unhide action.

unless i could somehow make an action that shows a open file window (with hidden files shown) when an empty space is clicked then you could unhide a file from there.

here is my show/hide invisible files action if anyone wants it. unzip and place in ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder.

 

[angelwatt]

Hide Folders will do this too. Though, it does it by adding a . in front the name.

 

[richard.mac]

thanks. though i wanted to do this with Automator so with out a third party app.