luckman212 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/utilities/file/ Would be very useful to support variables for the file(s) to check, instead of having to swap around arg/query to use this object... Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I don't know if it helps you (especially as you're a much more advanced programmer than I am 😀) but I use the Does Path Exist Automation Task. Stephen Link to comment
luckman212 Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 (edited) Quote you're a much more advanced programmer doubtful ! 🙃 still, I don't think the Automation Tasks can reference variables (yet) either. Edited April 30 by luckman212 Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 2 minutes ago, luckman212 said: I don't think the Automation Tasks can reference variables (yet) either. You can certainly use a variable in the Path: section of the Automation Task to which I referred (as well as in a number of other Automation Tasks). Stephen Link to comment
vitor Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Indeed, you can use {var:} in Automation Tasks. As to the original question, you can also use the Inbound Configuration to set a custom argument to the File Conditional, which can also be a {var:}. I just noticed that screenshot is outdated, though, as it doesn’t yet show the Custom Argument option. I’ll get that fixed. Link to comment
luckman212 Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 (edited) Hmm that's (good) news to me! I tried putting {var:foo} in the AT configuration panel and it didn't work. Maybe I did something wrong, I will try again. Also, it's not mentioned in the docs that variables are supported... edit: Hmmph. I just tried it again and yes, it works fine. Not sure what was going on earlier! Edited April 30 by luckman212 Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I've used variables successfully in the Folder Contents AT, Abbreviate with Tilde in Path AT, Does Path Exist? AT, and Path Dirname AT…among others. So there's no inherent problem, I think. Stephen Link to comment
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