May 2014

Getting Installed App details on Mac

To get detailed info of installed app on Mac we can use following command in mac terminal,

mdls /Applications/Xcode.app

it will return very useful info about any installed app like in above command if I want to see the BundleId of Xcode app,

kMDItemAlternateNames          = (
    “Xcode.app”
)
kMDItemAppStoreCategory        = “Developer Tools”
kMDItemAppStoreCategoryType    = “public.app-category.developer-tools”
kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier      = “com.apple.dt.Xcode”
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2013-08-13 23:34:45 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2013-08-13 23:34:45 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = “com.apple.application-bundle”
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    “com.apple.application-bundle”,
    “com.apple.application”,
    “public.executable”,
    “com.apple.localizable-name-bundle”,
    “com.apple.bundle”,
    “public.directory”,
    “public.item”,
    “com.apple.package”
)
kMDItemCopyright               = “Copyright © 1999–2013 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.”
kMDItemDateAdded               = 2014-04-04 19:25:48 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName             = “Xcode”
kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = (
    “x86_64”
)
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2013-08-13 23:34:45 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2013-08-13 23:34:45 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = “”
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 1
kMDItemFSIsStationery          = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
kMDItemFSName                  = “Xcode.app”
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 1
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 80
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 501
kMDItemFSSize                  = 4368446595
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = “”
kMDItemKind                    = “Application”
kMDItemLanguages               = (
    English
)
kMDItemLastUsedDate            = 2014-05-26 07:16:26 +0000
kMDItemLogicalSize             = 4368446595