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Have you written interesting scripts for Pipe that others might find useful as well?

Send them to us and we might add them to the script library in the next release or post them in our Wiki.

The Pipe Script Library and Template system

Pipe already comes with a library of scripts that do some common text transformations for you: Base-64, ROT-13, cryptographic checksums, or hex dumps. Many of these transformations work both ways: for example, you can easily toggle between encoding and decoding Base-64, or between making a hex dump and recreating the original data from its hex representation. And through the services menu of Mac OS X you can conveniently access these functions from most applications.

Templates provide a comfortable way to jumpstart development of new scripts. They also provide a very easy way to write and test short programs in languages that need to be compiled. The C and C++ templates are discussed in detail below. Writing C code can't get any easier than that!

Scripts and templates