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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
September 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
7h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Services Menu

Mac OS X’s Services menu (Terminal Services) exposes a collection of services that can work with the currently running application. In the case of the Terminal, the services operate on text that you have selected (the pasteboard). To use a service, select a region of text in the Terminal, and choose an operation from the Services menu. Mac OS X comes with several services, but third-party applications may install services of their own. When you use a service that requires a filename, you should select a fully qualified pathname, not just the filename, because the service does not know the shell’s current working directory. (As far as the service is concerned, you are invoking it upon a string of text).

Here is a list of the services available in the Mac OS X Services menu:

Finder

The Finder services menu allows you to open a file (Finder Open), show its enclosing directory (Finder Reveal), or show its information (Finder Show Info).

Mail

The Mail Send To service allows you to compose a new message to an email address, once you have selected that address in the Terminal. You can also select a region of text and choose Mail Send Selection to send a message containing the selected text.

Make New Sticky Note

This service creates a new Sticky (/Applications/Stickies) containing the selected text.

Speech

The Speech service is used to start speaking the selected text. (Use Speech Stop Speaking to interrupt.)

Summarize

This service condenses the selected text ...

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