These utilities list app locations in macOS

The Swift (68.2 ms) and Objective-C (78.4 ms) implementations try to mimic mdfind's (29.1 ms) behavior, but run slower than it.

When you are building applist, ensure you have either:

• A Swift compiler
• An Objective-C compiler.

If you have brew installed, just run:

$ brew install Neved4/tap/applist

Otherwise, first clone the repo:

$ git clone /~https://github.com/Neved4/applist

To build all variants, go to the project directory and run:

$ make all

Alternatively, to build the Objective-C version run:

$ clang -framework Cocoa -o applist-objc applist.mm

For the Swift version, run:

$ swiftc -O applist.swift -o applist-swift

Done!

Alternatively, if you'd rather not install or compile anything, feel free to add it as a function to your shell .profile:

applist() {
    mdfind "kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-bundle'"
}

$ applist | grep "Docker.app"
/Applications/Docker.app

This comes handy for manual Homebrew reinstalls that lie outside the default install path:

$ brew reinstall --cask docker --applist $(applist | grep Docker)

All programs were benchmarked with hyperfine under arm64:

For other shell functions like applist, check out apputils.

applist is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

See the LICENSE file for details.