Pasting result of last terminal command not working in keyboard shortcut

Bug Reports
1

I defined a keyboard shortcut that executes a terminal command synchronously. In the second action the result of the last terminal command should be pasted using the internal variable (BTT)@variable:BTTLastTerminalCommandResult(BTT).

This is not working. Nothing is pasted.

It used to work before my last update.

BTT_Action_1
BTT_Action_11013×339 39.1 KB

BTT_Action_2
BTT_Action_21014×671 72.8 KB

BTW: There is a small typo in the german localization "Termionalkommando"

Device information:

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Pro, 2019 (Intel)
  • macOS version: Sonoma 14.4.1
  • BetterTouchTool version: 4.477
2

I wonder how this worked in the past because there was a bug that should have prevented it from working even then.

It should now be fixed in 4.478 (uploading now)

3

Hi Andreas,

thanks for your fast bug fix! In version 4.478 it is working as expected.

Back in 2020 I created a keyboard shortcut to generate an OTP-Token for our company´s VPN - not just a random number :wink: So I just need to set the focus on the corresponding text field of the VPN-App and execute the keyboard shortcut.

I believe that I also tried the solution of this bug report at that time but I didn't get it to work. So I implemented a work around via Java Script Text Transformer:

async (clipboardContentString) => {
   let shellScript = `/usr/local/bin/oathtool --totp -b $(<~/.ssh/totp_company)`

   let shellScriptWrapper = {
      script: shellScript
   }

   let result = await runShellScript(shellScriptWrapper);
   return result
}

This worked for me for the last four years. Some weeks ago I wanted to rewrite the keyboard shortcut to get rid of the JavaScript-Transformer-Hack. Once again I tried a version with the usage of the terminal command.

I believe it was working as expected but I updated BTT some hours/days (?) later. After the update it wasn´t working anymore. Maybe it was just working because I forgot to remove the JavaScript-Transformer from the paste action? I can´t reproduce it.

Maybe it would be a nice feature to support creating OTP-tokens directly in BTT?