Automator applications exit before end

Question

Hi all,
I am facing a problem I cannot solve : I built a small automator workflow that download an URL (gzip file) every day (with iCal). I did not check this app for several weeks, but now it does not work at all.
If I open the workflow with Automator and run it with the > arrow, the job is done. But if I save the workflow into an app, and run it, the job is not done : only the 2 first steps (erase a file in Finder) are done, not the others (retrieving the URL).
All my apps have now this behaviour : they quit too early. I checked the log files, but no error is triggered during the - short - app execution.
Does anybody could help me please ?
Regards.
Macbook Pro C2D Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Answer 1

I'm not sure which action has the bigger bug, but you can try the following workflow, which replaces both of them (the items are placed in the ~/Downloads folder):
1) Get Specified Text (separate the URLs by returns)
2) Filter Paragraphs {Return paragraphs: that are not empty}
3) Run Shell Script {Shell: /bin/bash, Pass input: as arguments} (that is a capital 'oh'):
for f in "$@"
do
      cd ~/Downloads; curl -O "$f"
done
... and yes, that is essentially what the existing actions are supposed to be doing (with added bells and whistles, of course).