Re: List of all applications
Re: List of all applications
- Subject: Re: List of all applications
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:22:36 -0800
On Feb 21, 2011, at 1:00 AM, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2011, at 17:28, Bruce Robertson wrote:
>> Sorry; but no, "-onlyin" actually does not work as you expect. That is, it does NOT walk subfolders beyond 1 folder depth.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Hey Bruce,
>
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> mdfind -onlyin /Applications/ 'kMDItemFSName == "*.app"c && kMDItemLastUsedDate > $time.now(-86400)'
>
> /Applications/Calculator.app
> /Applications/Preview.app
> /Applications/Stickies.app
> /Applications/TextEdit.app
> /Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor.app
> /Applications/Utilities/Grab.app
> /Applications/Utilities/Utilities (Chris)/System Management & Information/WhatsOpen/WhatsOpen.app
> /Applications/Utilities/Utilities (Chris)/System Additions/LaunchBar/LaunchBar.app
> /Applications/Utilities/Utilities (Chris)/File Management & Find & Rename Utilities/Find Duplicates/dupeGuru PE/dupeGuru PE.app
> /Applications/Utilities/Utilities (Chris)/File Management & Find & Rename Utilities/A Better Finder Rename/A Better Finder Rename 8.app
> /Applications/Applications (Chris)/Omni Applications/OmniDazzle.app
> /Applications/Applications (Chris)/Internet Apps/Bittorrent Client/uTorrent/uTorrent.app
> /Applications/Applications (Chris)/Developer Tools/AppKiDo/AppKiDo.app
> /Applications/Applications (Chris)/Data Storage Apps/DEVONnote/DEVONnote.app
> /Applications/Applications (Chris)/AppleScript Apps/Script Debugger/Script Debugger 4.5.app
> /Applications/Applications (Chris)/AppleScript Apps/Script Debugger/Script Debugger 4.5.3/Script Debugger 4.5.app
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>
> Since I've used mdfind a bit I'm quite certain that on my machine it will descend further than one folder. Spotlight would be quite useless if it didn't.
>
> I've gone to the trouble of installing an older version of Script Debugger to demonstrate that 'mdfind' will discover more than one version of the same application.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris _______________________________________________
So you get correct results; and I do not. So I wonder what the difference is?
Apologies to Dylan:
Something is happening; but we don't know what it is - do we, Mr. Stone.
Bruce _______________________________________________
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