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.
Installation
$ npm install @httptoolkit/osx-find-executable
Usage
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
API
findExecutableById(id)
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.
findExecutableInApp(appPath)
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.
License
MIT
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