Re: application file id?
Re: application file id?
- Subject: Re: application file id?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:05:33 -0700
On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 04:35 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 10:22 am -0700 5/5/03, Christopher Nebel wrote:
That's good to know! I must have overlooked it in release notes. I
noticed that 'info for' does not return the bundle identifier. is
there some way to discover the identifier via script?
Not as such, no, but you could fake it with "do shell script":
set a to choose application as alias
do shell script "grep -A1 CFBundleIdentifier " & quoted form of
POSIX path of a & "/Contents/Info.plist"
The last line will contain the bundle identifier. Getting *exactly*
the bundle identifier is left as an exercise for the reader.
do shell script "
defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info
CFBundleIdentifier"
--> "com.apple.TextEdit"
do shell script "
defaults read /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info
CFBundleSignature"
--> "ttxt"
I had no idea you could point defaults(1) at an arbitrary plist file.
(Interestingly, you have to use a full path minus the extension.)
Combining the two...
set a to choose application as alias
do shell script "defaults read " & quoted form of POSIX path of a &
"/Contents/Info CFBundleIdentifier"
Far superior -- it gets exactly the information you want, and isn't
vulnerable to different formats of plists. Thanks, JD!
--Chris Nebel
Apple Development Tools
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