won't that be in the inventory already as an installed app?

@rockpapergoat Yessir, but if we have our analysts pull an advanced search under "Computers", they'll then need to dig into the "Details" link for each Mac. If they pull a search under "Applications" they won't be able to export the result.

So what we are trying to do is set up an EA so advanced searches under "Computers" will show a field with each instance of /Applications/FileMaker Pro on the Mac.

Don

Something like the following help?

#!/bin/bash

app="FileMaker"

AppPath=$(find /Applications/ -name "$app*.app" )

if [ -e "$AppPath" ]; then version=$(defaults read "$AppPath"/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleVersion)
fi

echo "<result>$version</result>"

similar to this previous script i wrote:

https://github.com/rockpapergoat/scripts/blob/master/misc/get_app_version.rb

this one formats the output for use as an extension attribute.

if you run it as a standalone script, the value of $4 (ARGV[3] in ruby) will be used as the app name to check. otherwise, you can remove the positional arguments check and pass whatever you want.

https://gist.github.com/2315784

@leslie Thanks, I'll give this a go.

@rockpapergoat, I'll have a look at your solution when I get a chance on Monday.