Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
- Subject: Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
- From: Karl Kuehn <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:39:48 -0700
On Jul 7, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Paul Miller wrote:
I'm working on an Installer plugin that will install my stuff into
multiple copies of Photoshop (ie Photoshop CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4, etc).
So I want to search for and find all copies of an application named
"Photoshop" with a certain signature. I think
LSGetApplicationForInfo() will only get me the "default" one.
What's the best way to search for ALL of them, noting that they
might not all be in /Applications?
You probably want to use Spotlight (if you can afford to go 10.4 and
above). You can do this in a script with mdfind. Building the right
find command can be a bit of an art, but you probably will only want
to look for applications with a name matching a pattern. But you can
do more, and even find things where the user has changed the outside
"name".
--
Karl Kuehn
email@hidden
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