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Re: List of all applications


  • Subject: Re: List of all applications
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:48:53 -0600

On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:30, email@hidden wrote:
>  I'd like to create an AppleScript to scan my hard drive and produce a list of all my applications and the date they were last opened.  The purpose is to find unused apps so I can see which ones to delete.
>
>  I've tried using the Unix 'find' command, i.e.
> find . -name "*.app" -print
> but that also goes into the application bundles, which I don't want.  Plus, it doesn't give the date they were last opened.
>
>  Has something like this already been written?  If not, I'd really appreciate some pointers.

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Hey Marc,

Luther Fuller has a nice script that lists apps and might be adapted to your needs.

'prune' will solve your depth problem though.

 find /Applications/ -name "*.app" -prune

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