Re: 'info for' braindead about .app packages
Re: 'info for' braindead about .app packages
- Subject: Re: 'info for' braindead about .app packages
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 02:33:55 -0400
At 11:14 PM -0700 5/5/04, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
At 06:28p -0700 05/05/2004, Christopher Nebel didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On May 5, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
It seems that 'info for' fails to get version info on .app packages.
And how should I get the 'short version' for an .app package?
As of 10.3 (Panther), just say "short version of (info for ...)".
Prior to that, you can use Rob's trick:
set c to "defaults read
'/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Info' CFBundleShortVersionString"
set s_ver to do shell script c
'k, now I check the system version so I can use the speedier
command. Speaking of which, turns out it's actually much faster to
read and parse the XML file than to use do shell script/defaults.
Yep, I don't doubt that. I haven't done any testing but based on my
overall experience and the feedback of other scripters, do shell
script can be pretty sluggish (even when issuing simple shell
commands that don't take a great deal of time to execute).
-- Rob
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