Run Shell Script action exited with error 64

I'm trying to run a shell script to run a shortcut and then return the output of that into a variable by running the command:

/usr/bin/Shortcuts run "Get Current Focus" | cat

Now when I run that in terminal I get:

Personal%

or

Work%

Or whatever the current focus mode is set to.

But when I run it within Indigo I'm getting:

Run Shell Script action: script /usr/bin/Shortcuts exited abnormally with a return code of: 64

Now I presume it's something to do with the % that is being added onto the output (Which doesn't appear when run within Shortcuts itself) so I presume I need to parse this out, but I'm drawing a blank on how to do this (or indeed am I barking up the wrong tree?).

Any ideas?

Why are you piping it into 'cat'? I don't think you want to do that.

I expect the % is your command prompt. The script is probably not outputting a newline, so the command prompt just ends up right after the output.

I was piping it to cat as that was the only way I could find that’d generate an output for me to feed through to a variable. Without it it just runs the shortcut with no response.

Is there a better way to get the response into a variable without the %? Alas this is not something I have much experience with so just trying to figure out options.


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Ignore the %, it's not going to show up anywhere other than on the command line in the terminal. If you pipe that shortcut to something else, it won't be there.

HOW are you trying to get this into an Indigo variable?

Show the shortcut, please.

[jay (support)]

The pipe is likely the problem. You need to add a Stop and output Text action at the end of your shortcut. That should return whatever value the previous shortcut step produced.

The pipe is likely the problem. You need to add a Stop and output Text action at the end of your shortcut. That should return whatever value the previous shortcut step produced.

That was exactly what I was trying to test, but I'm getting no output.

So it’s a pretty simple affair at present. Here’s the action in Indigo (run shell script command)



And here’s the shortcut:



Naturally at the moment it’ll only return personal but I can flesh it out later once I’ve got the concept working. Ultimately what I want is to get the current focus mode into indigo as a Variable so I can write little python scripts to do different things on triggers based on the current mode.

I’m open to any thoughts on more efficient ways of doing this too.


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[jay (support)]

Did you read my post above and try that shortcut modification I recommended?

Did you read my post above and try that shortcut modification I recommended?

Oops sorry completely missed your reply!

Just tried it and that works. In fact I was able to simplify the shortcut to just get focus and then stop and output to focus name, and now it’s working exactly as I wanted!

Thank you both!


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