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find universal binaries with spotlight?
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I would like to use spotlight (through the terminal - mdfind) to find universal binaries.
Anyone knows how to do this?
mdfind doesn't seem to be able to differentiate the architecture in the app...
it only finds by kind=app and shows the apps regardless of being UB or native
anyone knows?
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Clinically Insane
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It doesn't get listed by mdls, so I assume the information isn't in the Spotlight store, unfortunately.
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Chuck
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I used mdls to find its metadata, and those were my thoughts...
I know a way of doing it with find:
2>/dev/null find /myPath -type f -perm +111 -exec lipo -info '{}' ';' | grep -w i386
but it lists also inside ome packages, and I would like to list only the "main" app.
also find is very slow...
any thoughts of an alternative way?
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Well if you have all your apps in one folder, you can just sort by kind and the finder will throw all PPC apps to the bottom.
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System Profiler will list all of your GUI apps according to kind.
On the command line, do
system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType
to get a list that indicates Universal/PowerPC/Intel.
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I was going to suggest you use _LSCopyAllApplicationURLs and check each one, but the system_profiler idea is probably better.
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Chuck
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those are only good for the apps installed in the Applications folder in the startup HD...
I would like to list in a specific folder or other HD, sorry for not specifying that.
_LSCopyAllApplicationURLs, what is this?
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It's a Launch Services function for finding all applications.
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Chuck
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What is this for exactly? Perhaps if we knew your ultimate purpose we could be more useful.
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Originally Posted by Mithras
What is this for exactly? Perhaps if we knew your ultimate purpose we could be more useful.
You're right!
At the beginning it wasn't important to specify the objective, but now I think it might help:
It is an application to show the installed apps (with the option to chose which folder/HD), the main goal is to show the UB installed, that's why I can't rely on the system profiler, becasue it just lists the ones in the Applications folder, and some people (me included), have apps elsewhere.
As for the _LSCopyAllApplicationURLs, after searching, I found some usefull (still not enough though) info. Thanks for pointing that Chuckit!, if you could shed some more light about that solution I would appreciate (it isn't very well documented...).
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