How to create an "ENTER-action in text" in Automator

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michaelsopa Author

Level 1

4 points

How to create an "ENTER-action in text" in Automator

Hi,

I have the following challenge here:

I have text content that consists of several weblinks without a space in between. It looks like this:

http://www.gooogl.com/https://abc.org/http://banana.com/http://skydive.net/ etc.

What I'd like to do in Automator is to create an action that enters a new paragraph ahead of every address, so that it will finally look like this:

http://www.gooogl.com/

https://abc.org/

http://banana.com/

http://skydive.net/

I hope you get the idea :-)

My text input will be in pages, but if that doesn't work than I switch to TextEdit.

So, how do I do this? Right now I enter the paragraphs manually but this text has several hundreds of lines.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Mike

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Automator

Posted on Jul 19, 2014 1:10 PM

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Answer 1

Hiroto

Level 5

7,461 points

Jul 19, 2014 3:26 PM in response to michaelsopa

Hello

You may create an Automator service as follows:

Automator Service:

Service receives selected [text] in [any application],

Replaces selected text [checked]

Workflow:

Action = Run Shell Script action

Shell = /bin/bash

Pass input = to stdin

Code =

/usr/bin/perl -CSDA -pe 's%.(?=https?://)%$&\n%og;'

Service workflow will look like this:

To use it, select text and invoke service (from Services menu or keyboard shortcut you assigned) and it will replace the selected text with the processed text.

Hope this may help,

H

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