| There is no LS API to do this. However, a Spotlight search will do the trick nicely.
The Spotlight query _expression_ you want to use is:
kMDItemContentTypeTree == "com.apple.application"c
This _expression_ says, in Spotlight-ese, "item content type conforms to com.apple.application". The "c" at the end does a case-insensitive string match. The kMDItemContentTypeTree attr is a multi-value containing *all* the content type UTIs to which the item conforms. You can therefore search this attr to perform a conforms-to test in a Spotlight query; in this case it allows the query to find both application packages and plain file apps.
Try it with this shell command:
mdfind 'kMDItemContentTypeTree = "com.apple.application"c'
-Chris On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:46 PM, David Litwin wrote: I need to get a list of all registered apps on a particular Mac. LaunchServices can give me info about an app given a number of identifying properties, but how would one go about getting access to its entire list?
David Litwin
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