NAME

amlint — check Automator actions for problems

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

amlint checks the given Automator actions for various problems and interface inconsistencies. action is the path of a built action bundle. The options are as follows:

-H

Print the filename for each error or warning.

-h

Suppress the prefixing of filenames when multiple actions are checked.

-S

For each action, write a summary line indicating how many errors and warnings there were.

-s

As -S, but skips the summary line for actions with no errors or warnings.

-d definition-bundle

Specify a definition bundle, which specifies custom action input and output types. This option may be repeated if you need to specify more than one bundle.

-x exception-file

Specify a list of errors and warnings to ignore. The file should be plain text, with one line per error: the action filename, a colon, space, and the text of the error. For example:

My Action.action: error: NSButton "OK" should not use the metal style.

You can simply copy an output line from amlint -H.

RETURN VALUES

amlint exits with one of the following values:

0

no serious errors were found.

1

an error was found in one of the checked actions.

>1

an internal error occurred.

BUGS

Because of a bug in nibtool(1), amlint will fail to work on some nibs. You will see errors about the “old-style plist parser” if this happens.