Adobe Illustrator 2021 lists without 2021

I think this one is on Adobe's shoulders. If you check the path from the CLI, the actual application path is: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2021/Adobe Illustrator.app, and that holds true for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

I was using an extension attribute to detect whether the app was installed and what version was present. Don't forget to change the year as needed!

#!/bin/bash

##################################################################
# Purpose:  Version of  Illustrator 2020, as name is identical for 2018-2021
# Author:   Aaron J <aar......nt.com>
##################################################################

YEAR="2020"
[ "$YEAR" -lt 2019 ] && CC=" CC" || CC=""
PLIST="/Applications/Adobe Illustrator$CC $YEAR/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/Info.plist"

if [ -f "${PLIST}" ]; then
  CFBundleVersion=$(defaults read "${PLIST}" CFBundleVersion)
  echo "<result>$CFBundleVersion</result>"
else
  echo "<result>None</result>"
fi

exit 0

Adobe applications can be fun, especially when trying to script things like uninstalls, backing up preferences, etc.

On all of my machines, the installed path is:
/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2021/Adobe Illustrator 2021.app

JAMF lists:
/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2021/Adobe Illustrator.app

Pretty sure it's JAMF.

Adobe is the biggest bane of my job.

Hmmm.... Was curious if Jamf was somehow making some sort of change during the installation, so I checked on a machine that isn't managed by Jamf. I've included both the Finder view, and the command line in the attached screenshot.

Honestly, I wasn't even sure that a POSIX path could differ materially from the traditional MacOS path, but there it is...

Very weird. Yeah, terminal says it's Adobe Illustrator.app & finder clearly shows the date. So Mac OS & Adobe?

I've done a fresh clean install after uninstalling what I can, delete the remaining, carve out the cancerous extra junk Adobe folders, & delete anything from Keychain that is Adobe. If I do an upgrade install, it leaves the APP named as it was, like without a date or with the 2020.