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RE: List of registered apps

Thanks for the info on Spotlight (I hadn’t known about mdfind), but I need to be compatible back to 10.2.8, so I won’t be able to use this.

Hopefully the LS team will expose the internal API Spotlight uses to get this info.


Dave

 

From: Christopher Linn [mailto:email@hidden]

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

 

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