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copied!<p>All the applications installed under Mac OS X are registered in the <a href="http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/LaunchServicesReference/Reference/reference.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Launch Services</a> database.</p> <p>The Launch Services framework contains a helper shell command <code>lsregister</code> which among other uses can dump the information stored in the Launch Services database. Under Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 that command is located in the following folder:</p> <pre><code>/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister </code></pre> <p>Using a few simple grep filters one can extract the full paths of all registered applications:</p> <pre><code>lsregister -dump | grep --after-context 1 "^bundle" | grep --only-matching "/.*\.app" </code></pre> <p>Putting it all together, the following AppleScript will compute the user visible names of all registered applications using the <a href="http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/reference/ASLR_cmds.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000983-CH216-SW14" rel="nofollow noreferrer">info for</a> command:</p> <pre><code>property pLSRegisterPath : "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister" set theAppPaths to every paragraph of (do shell script pLSRegisterPath & " -dump | grep --after-context 1 \"^bundle\" | grep --only-matching \"/.*\\.app\"") set theNames to {} repeat with thePath in theAppPaths try copy displayed name of (info for (thePath as POSIX file)) to end of theNames end try end repeat choose from list theNames </code></pre>

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