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I'm using a script to add ebooks (ePub and PDFs) automatically to Calibre, using

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/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/calibredb add "$1"

as an embedded shell script. This works fine. However, I wanted to add a condition to this rule that Calibre itself isn't running, as that will cause

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calibredb

to fail. I can't get that to work using either a shell script or an apple script.

I'm using the following embedded shell script as a rule condition:

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#!/bin/bash
PROCESS=calibre
number=$(ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -ci $PROCESS)

if [ $number -gt 0 ]
    then
        exit 1
   else
      exit 0
fi

This gives me a Rule does not match whether Calibre is running or not.

Using the following embedded Apple Script

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if application "calibre" is running then
   return false
else
   return true
end if

gives me an "Error evaluation condition":

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Error executing AppleScript: calibre got an error: Can’t get running.

Any hints?

Have you tried those scripts outside of Hazel?

Mr_Noodle wrote:Have you tried those scripts outside of Hazel?

Yup. Both work fine actually.

At least for the AppleScript, have you given Hazel automation permissions to operate with calibre?

For the shell script, maybe you should print things out at various stages. If you turn on debug mode (https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-debug-mode/), you can see the script output in the logs.