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POHow to obtain an application's Bundle ID (or plist path) from only the PID?
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copied!<p>Similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3309681/how-to-find-bundle-identifier-from-known-pid">"How to find Bundle Identifier from known PID?"</a> and to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4328501/how-to-read-plist-information-bundle-id-from-a-shell-script">"How to read plist information (bundle id) from a shell script</a>, but different.. as those are both related to Xcode build variable expansion, etc.</p> <p><strong>My question is how, in a BASH shell, where they only known value is the process' PID, how can one obtain that process' <em>PATH, or unique "Bundle ID".</em></strong></p> <p>I am sure there is a hideous regex to parse ps, but I'm hoping for something cleaner and more portable. The comments in those prior mentioned posts included</p> <pre><code>BUNDLE_ID=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleIdentifier" "${BUILD_ROOT}/${INFOPLIST_PATH}") </code></pre> <p>However, I do not think <code>plistbuddy</code> is installed on every Mac, and more importantly, my question is within a theoretical script, NOT within an Xcode build phase..</p> <p>I've tried <code>plutil</code>, <code>plistkit</code>, and <code>plistdump</code>, and none of them seem to do the trick..</p> <p>The reason I am trying to achieve this is to be able to execute <code>defaults read</code> / <code>write</code> functions without hardcoding the BundleID of the parent process. I know how to pass this info as an argument to a script.. but I want to be able to doubt check.. within the script.</p>

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