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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ #!/bin/sh # Convert RTF contents of clipboard to HTML osascript -e 'the clipboard as «class RTF »' | \ perl -ne 'print chr foreach unpack("C*",pack("H*",substr($_,11,-3)))' | \ textutil -format rtf -convert html -stdin -stdout | \ pandoc -f html -t markdown | \ pbcopy # Paste contents of the clipboard into the current application osascript <<EOF (* First we need to get the name of the current application. Trick borrowed from http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2010/02/15/get-current-application-with-applescript/ *) on GetCurrentApp() tell application "System Events" set _app to item 1 of (every process whose frontmost is true) return name of _app end tell end GetCurrentApp set _app to GetCurrentApp() (* Now we need to paste into the current app. I don't know any way to do this aside from using GUI scripting (ugh). *) tell application _app to activate tell application "System Events" tell process _app tell menu bar 1 tell menu bar item "Edit" tell menu "Edit" click menu item "Paste" end tell end tell end tell end tell end tell EOF