Find an app's executable by its bundle id
npm install @httptoolkit/osx-find-executable> _Part of HTTP Toolkit: powerful tools for building, testing & debugging HTTP(S)_
Find an app's executable on Mac.
This is a fork of https://github.com/juliangruber/osx-find-executable, which appears to now be unmaintained.
Key differences:
* This fork includes a fallback (manually searching the apps in /Applications) if Spotlight is disabled, instead of just claiming that all apps can't be found.
* This fork can also find an executable given a path to an app folder, not only using bundle id.
* This fork returns promises throughout, and doesn't use callbacks.
* This fork includes type definitions for TypeScript.
``bash`
$ npm install @httptoolkit/osx-find-executable
`js
const { findExecutableById } = require('@httptoolkit/osx-find-executable')
findExecutableById('com.google.Chrome').then((exec) => {
// => /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
});
``
For more detailed examples, take a look at the tests in test.js
Takes a bundle id (like com.google.Chrome), finds the corresponding bundle on disk, and returns a promise for the path to the executable within.
Takes a path to an app bundle (a .app directory, like /Applications/Google Chrome.app), and returns a promise for the path to the executable within.
MIT