I simply occurred to want to do a whole lot of phrase counts immediately so I put collectively a service to make my life simpler. Whereas, I carried out my preliminary work on Mojave however the identical method works all the way in which to Large Sur and, presumably, the upcoming macOS Malibu Barbie.
Open Automator
To get began, launch automator and create a brand new doc.
Choose Fast Motion, Select from the brand new doc dialog:
Add Scripting
Drop in a Run Shell Script after which an Apple Script. You possibly can search from them within the top-left nook. Drag them so as into the precise panel.
I used /bin/bash for my shell script, surprising, I do know, as I’m well-known for my love of all issues csh. Be happy to make use of no matter shell fits you. The primary non-argument shell variable ($1 right here) corresponds to highlighted textual content, which can be utilized by the system contextual menu:
echo `echo $1 | wc -w` phrases. `echo $1 | wc -c` characters.
Swap the pop-up for piping output (“passing enter”) from “to stdin” to “as arguments”. This permits the AppleScript to learn the chosen knowledge and current a dialog. In case you neglect, you’ll get empty enter and one thing like “1 phrases, 0 characters” on a regular basis.
on run {enter, parameters}
show dialog enter as string buttons {"OK"}
finish run
Save and Run
Save the motion. I referred to as mine “Phrase Depend”.
The motion robotically saves to ~/Library/Providers, in case you wish to discover or delete it sooner or later.
% ls Phrase Depend.workflow/
Your new fast motion robotically provides a customized service to your contextual pop-ups. Simply spotlight something you wish to depend, from textual content on an online web page to your work in a doc and open the contextual menu:
Ensure the output seems cheap. For best testing, copy the textual content to your clipboard after which use wc instantly in terminal.
And, then growth, you’re performed.
Let me know if this was useful.