[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by loximuthal

Thanks! The particular code you suggested didn't work for me, and anyway I only want to launch one book at a time. I used this instead:

while ( $# )
	ebook-edit "$1"
	shift
end

and everything worked swimingly.

Further details, for others who might want to do this, in the Automator dialog:
Shell:/bin/csh
Pass Input: as arguments

EDIT: I should have realized, but this script will only take books dropped on it. It does not launch the program independently. That's ok for me, but you may have a different work flow.

Try this instead:

if [ "$1" != "" ]
	while [ "$1" != "" ]
		ebook-edit "$1"
		shift
	done
else
	ebook-edit
fi

So it only calls your code if arguments are passed, else it just calls ebook-edit.

DISCLAIMER: I am allowed to know this since I am a linux guy even though I'm not a Mac guy.