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Re: Two questions


  • Subject: Re: Two questions
  • From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:00:46 -0400

On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 01:38 AM, Jeffrey Camiel wrote:

Yeah but can you do this with MAC 9x. I didn't know you could do a shell script with 9

The original question Jeffrey Camiel posted was...

1. Does anybody have a simple script that lists all the applications
within a volume to a text file? for 10.x and 9.x

The answer is no. That isn't a simple task due to inconsistencies in the implementation and capabilities of AS over various versions. In OS X it is simple and thus a simple answer was offered for X. Several actually.

You can't do quite a few, thousands really, of really amazing things in OS 9 or 8 or 7 etc.
OS 9 is dead. Ask Steve.

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Paul Skinner wrote:

do shell script "locate \"*.app\""

Sounded interesting, but returned a null string here.

I had to...
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

Then I got a nice list, with paths!
The update took about a minute.

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 12:54 PM, Philip Aker wrote:

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 08:50 AM, bill wrote:

At 06:55 -0700 7/7/02, Jeffrey Camiel wrote:
1. Does anybody have a simple script that lists all the applications
within a volume to a text file? for 10.x and 9.x
SNIP
Try this method:

do shell script "find / | grep '.app$' > ~/Desktop/ListOfApplications"

Slightly faster for OS X (but it relies on a database which I think is
refreshed every Saturday at 4:30 am) is:

do shell script "locate \"*.app\""


For OS 9 and X, I believe if you save a Sherlock search criteria, you
can get Sherlock to run it by a script.

Philip Aker
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