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Re: Get a list of applications
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Re: Get a list of applications


  • Subject: Re: Get a list of applications
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 15:01:15 -0700

Sure:

tell application "Finder"
get name of every application file of folder "Macintosh
HD:Applications"
end tell

Andrew
:)

On 7/6/03 2:15 PM, "Tom Jones" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> Is there a way to strip out just the name of the Application, this way
> it does not display the full path?
>
> Thanks,
> tom
>
> On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Andrew Oliver wrote:
>
>> How about:
>>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> get every application file of folder "Macintosh HD:Applications"
>> end tell
>>
>> It doesn't do recursive, so apps in subdirectories aren't listed, but
>> that's
>> a simple addition to the script.
>>
>> Andrew
>> :)
>>
>> On 7/6/03 9:31 AM, "Tom Jones" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I would like to get a list of all of the Applications in the
>>> /Applications folder, but it appears that the Apple System Profiler is
>>> not scriptable in Mac OS X. Does anyone have any suggestions or
>>> examples on how I would go about getting this information.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> tom
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