Platypus is a Mac OS X development tool for creating application wrappers around scripts, i.e. creating Mac OS X applications that execute a script they are bundled with. Scripts thus run transparently from the graphical window environment, facilitating their execution and blending seamlessly into the user interface. Platypus sports the following features: Authentication dialog for executing script with privileges Setting custom icons for script applications Scripts receive paths of dropped files as arguments Scripts receive path to application bundle via $1 (ARGV[0]) Interface for copying support files into application bundle Support for Shell, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Tcl, Expect, AppleScript Support for arbitrary interpreter definition -- which effectively means support for any kind of interpreted scripting language Apps can be set to run in the background Apps can print script output into a text window Script encryption and checksumming for secure applications Command line utility for automating the creation of applications
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