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<blockquote data-quote="gatorparrots" data-source="post: 291"><p><span style="color: blue">AppleSystemProfiler | grep Applications >> ~/installedApps.txt</span></p><p>This launches the GUI version of Apple System Profiler, but then it pipes the results of the "Applications" tab through a grep seach and then outputs the result to a text file in your home directory. Simple and clean -- it finds all Carbon or Cocoa applications. <em>(Leave off the '>> ~/installedApps.txt' if you want it to output directly to the shell and not to a text file.)</em></p><p></p><p>One caveat: the above code will just find what is in your <strong>/Applications</strong> directory.</p><p></p><p>To search your drive for Cocoa apps, do this:</p><p><span style="color: blue">sudo find / -name "*.app" >> ~/CocoaApps.txt</span></p><p>or</p><p><span style="color: blue">sudo locate '*.app' >> ~/CocoaApps.txt</span></p><p>(very fast, but only accurate if your locate.db has been rebuilt recently)</p><p></p><p>The final approach is slower, but will find and list all applications in /Applications, whether they are Carbon or Cocoa. <em>(AppleScript authored by <strong>pmccann</strong> at forums.macosxhints.com):</em></p><p></p><p>[code]-- Configure this if necessary: exclude_dirs is just a list</p><p>-- of directory names (within starting_dir) that the script </p><p>-- should not examine for applications. If you don't have any</p><p>-- directories that need excluding you can set exclude_dirs to {} </p><p>-----------------------------------------</p><p>set starting_dir to (path to the startup disk as string) & "Applications:"</p><p>set exclude_dirs to {}</p><p>-----------------------------------------</p><p>on getapps(given_dir)</p><p> global app_list, exclude_dirs</p><p> tell application "Finder"</p><p> if the name of folder given_dir is in exclude_dirs then</p><p> set inside_this to {} --just empty it out</p><p> else</p><p> set mylist to (every file of folder given_dir whose file type is "APPL")</p><p> repeat with filex in mylist</p><p> set app_list to app_list & the POSIX path of (filex as alias)</p><p> end repeat</p><p> set inside_this to every folder of folder given_dir</p><p> end if</p><p> end tell</p><p> repeat with another_dir in inside_this</p><p> getapps(another_dir as alias)</p><p> end repeat</p><p>end getapps</p><p>global applist, exclude_dirs</p><p>set app_list to {}</p><p>getapps(starting_dir)</p><p>return app_list[/code]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gatorparrots, post: 291"] [color=blue]AppleSystemProfiler | grep Applications >> ~/installedApps.txt[/color] This launches the GUI version of Apple System Profiler, but then it pipes the results of the "Applications" tab through a grep seach and then outputs the result to a text file in your home directory. Simple and clean -- it finds all Carbon or Cocoa applications. [i](Leave off the '>> ~/installedApps.txt' if you want it to output directly to the shell and not to a text file.)[/i] One caveat: the above code will just find what is in your [b]/Applications[/b] directory. To search your drive for Cocoa apps, do this: [color=blue]sudo find / -name "*.app" >> ~/CocoaApps.txt[/color] or [color=blue]sudo locate '*.app' >> ~/CocoaApps.txt[/color] (very fast, but only accurate if your locate.db has been rebuilt recently) The final approach is slower, but will find and list all applications in /Applications, whether they are Carbon or Cocoa. [i](AppleScript authored by [b]pmccann[/b] at forums.macosxhints.com):[/i] [code]-- Configure this if necessary: exclude_dirs is just a list -- of directory names (within starting_dir) that the script -- should not examine for applications. If you don't have any -- directories that need excluding you can set exclude_dirs to {} ----------------------------------------- set starting_dir to (path to the startup disk as string) & "Applications:" set exclude_dirs to {} ----------------------------------------- on getapps(given_dir) global app_list, exclude_dirs tell application "Finder" if the name of folder given_dir is in exclude_dirs then set inside_this to {} --just empty it out else set mylist to (every file of folder given_dir whose file type is "APPL") repeat with filex in mylist set app_list to app_list & the POSIX path of (filex as alias) end repeat set inside_this to every folder of folder given_dir end if end tell repeat with another_dir in inside_this getapps(another_dir as alias) end repeat end getapps global applist, exclude_dirs set app_list to {} getapps(starting_dir) return app_list[/code] [/QUOTE]
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