MAC OSX Mavericks, using bash to see "Get Info" attributes

15
2013-12

Rell3oT

I want to use my bash shell to see the attributes that are shown when you right click on an Application and click Get Info. The specific attributes that I want to know whether or not they are checked is Open in Low Resolution, Prevent App Nap, and Locked.

I looked in the Info.plist file but only generic information about the file was contained here, not which attributes were checked.

Is this information contained in the Applications binary? Where is it?

Answers

Lauri Ranta

The locked setting is stored as a Finder flag:

find /Applications/Application.app -maxdepth 1 -flags +uchg|grep -q .&&echo locked
GetFileInfo /Applications/Application.app|grep -q '^attributes:.*L'&&echo locked

The app nap disabled settings are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist:

$ /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print LSAppNapIsDisabled:com.haystacksoftware.Arq:0' ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
bookH0P
       ApplicationsArq.a�p
�C8A�@�H���A�1M�$5DF7A03E-A7FB-3E80-B61D-F10CD8BF7B5D/ /Applications/Arq.app�����(Xx 0H@h  � � � �  �0 �$�0

osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to info for (POSIX file "/Applications/Application.app")' does not include either of those settings.

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