I am looking for a way to find an app's location on the system from the command line using its bundle identifier. I can open it like this:
open -b 'com.zerotier.ZeroTierOne'
… where com.zerotier.ZeroTierOne is my bundle ID, but what I want to do is locate where the app is actually installed. I want a command that will return (for example):
/Applications/ZeroTier One.app
in response to a query by identifier 'com.zerotier.ZeroTierOne'.
The "-R" option to open will reveal in finder but I want this to be completely non-interactive and done via a shell script.
Best Answer
The magic command is:
You can determine this by working backwards from
mdls foo | grep kMDItemCF
So if you didn't know iPhoto's CF Bundle Identifier: