From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2002-06-02T02:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding all applications

Chris Gehlker <gehlker@fastq.com> writes:

> In trying to add drag and drop scripting to RubyStudio and the first task is
> to simply make a set of all the applications on the local volumes. I've
> fallen into some gnarlyesque Carbon code. Before I proceed further down this
> thorny path, is there some simple unix way of doing this. Any pointers
> appreciated.

I'm away from my MacOS X box, but have you tried this?

    find / -type d -name '*.app'

(Wrap that in a Ruby system() command, of course.)

Jim
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