Re: [MacPerl] Getting *all* paths to application

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Paul DuBois <paul@snake.net> writes:
>The Mac::MoreFiles hash %Application works wonderfully for getting the
>path to an application with no work, given the application signature.

Thanks.

>But if I want to know the paths to all instances of an application
>(e.g., there are often multiple copies of SimpleText on a machine),
>is there an easy way to do that?

No. Finding *one* application is well supported in the OS because that's what
the Finder has to do, but finding *all* applications requires an exhaustive
search.

Matthias

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