RE: Two questions
RE: Two questions
- Subject: RE: Two questions
- From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:30:33 -0400
What about using AppleSystemProfiler. Can't it list find Apps?
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From: Paul Skinner
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Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 10:00 AM
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To: AppleScript Users
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Subject: Re: Two questions
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On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 01:38 AM, Jeffrey Camiel wrote:
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> Yeah but can you do this with MAC 9x. I didn't know you could do a
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> shell script with 9
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The original question Jeffrey Camiel posted was...
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> 1. Does anybody have a simple script that lists all the applications
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> within a volume to a text file? for 10.x and 9.x
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The answer is no. That isn't a simple task due to inconsistencies in the
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implementation and capabilities of AS over various versions. In OS X it
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is simple and thus a simple answer was offered for X. Several actually.
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You can't do quite a few, thousands really, of really amazing things in
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OS 9 or 8 or 7 etc.
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OS 9 is dead. Ask Steve.
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> On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Paul Skinner wrote:
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>>> do shell script "locate \"*.app\""
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>> Sounded interesting, but returned a null string here.
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>> I had to...
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>> sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
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>> Then I got a nice list, with paths!
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>> The update took about a minute.
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>> On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 12:54 PM, Philip Aker wrote:
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>>> On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 08:50 AM, bill wrote:
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>>>> At 06:55 -0700 7/7/02, Jeffrey Camiel wrote:
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>>>>> 1. Does anybody have a simple script that lists all the
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>>>>> applications
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>>>>> within a volume to a text file? for 10.x and 9.x
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>> SNIP
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>>>> Try this method:
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>>>> do shell script "find / | grep '.app$' >
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>>>> ~/Desktop/ListOfApplications"
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>>> Slightly faster for OS X (but it relies on a database which I think is
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>>> refreshed every Saturday at 4:30 am) is:
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>>> do shell script "locate \"*.app\""
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>>> For OS 9 and X, I believe if you save a Sherlock search criteria, you
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>>> can get Sherlock to run it by a script.
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>>> Philip Aker
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