From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-06-02T03:08:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding all applications

Jim Menard wrote:

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

Or, if you want to use Ruby:

  ruby -r find -e 'Find.find("/"){|f| puts f if f[/\.app$/]}'
  

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