I’m going to demonstrate the robust way of doing things, but bear in mind that if you don’t care about the output you can leave out the first and last steps.
#Automator mac tutorial 2014 password#
In the case of the XKPasswd action myself an Allison talked about last week there was no output as such because the action wrote the password to the clipboard, but that’s probably the exception rather than the rule. The reason for the complication is that if we are not careful we could end up replacing the output of the workflow with a link to the sound we just played! To actually play a sound we’ll only need two automator actions, one to get the file we want to play, and one to play it, but, depending on what the workflow is for, you may need four. During that discussion Allison mentioned it would nice if Automator could play a sound when it was finished so you could know when automator was done generating the password without installing a third-party notification app like Growl.Īt the time I didn’t know of a way to do that, but now I do, and it’s really quite straightforward thanks to the OS X terminal command afplay which will play an audio file without opening any sort of GUI. In a recent Chit Chat Across the Pond segment on episode 484 of the Nosillacast Mac Podcast myself and Allison walked through the process of creating an automator action for generating secure memorable passwords with the XKPasswd 2 perl module (we basically walked through the steps in this blog post).
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