Remove Application from multiple locations on computer

Are you also removing the receipt from when it was initially installed?

I have not been, basically just a rm pointed at the .app in /Applications. I know it is still installed in some ~/Applications even after the policy to remove it has run, because its not looking there. So it continues to report in Inventory and the Policy still shows in self service, which is a little annoying for users.

Any reason you don't just set up a Restricted Software policy and select the option, "Delete Application"? I was under the impression that it did not discriminate based where the application was launched from.

Restricted Software should help like mentioned above.

In the event that you want to more proactively find and delete the application, you could consider using a script that uses mdfind (faster) or find (slower but sometimes more accurate) to locate the app and delete it.

Thanks for those. I'm not sure the restricted policy will work because the app never gets launched. I will test it to see how it may do what we need. Its the scripting of the find that I struggle with, but that's what testing is for. Thanks again.

1#!/bin/bash
2
3while read result; do
4    /bin/rm -R "$result"
5done < <(/usr/bin/mdfind 'kMDItemKind == "Application" && kMDItemFSName == "HipChat.app"')

Something like that when using mdfind might work

Things like this make me wish I knew more scripting. Thanks much.

Due to the recent zero day vulnerability, we had to remove any/all copies of Google Chrome that was not at the desired version or higher.

Would run this script in its own policy (target all computers) as a clean up script to remove copies not in /Applications/Google Chrome.app path.

A second policy enforces /Applications/Google Chrome.app path, where if you have it but it isn’t the right version (or higher), we replace it with the right version.

Replace "COMPANY" with your company name.

1#!/bin/bash
2
3GOODPATH="/Applications/Google Chrome.app"
4BUNDLEID="com.google.Chrome"
5SEARCHDIR="/Library/Application Support/COMPANY/SearchResults"
6SEARCHFILE="$SEARCHDIR/Removed-Google-Chrome-$DATESTRING.txt"
7DATESTRING=$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)
8
9# Create folder if it doesn't exist
10
11mkdir -p "$SEARCHDIR"
12
13# This function finds all apps with CFBundleIdentifier "$BUNDLEID", but ignores
14# `/Applications/Google Chrome.app` path. This method of searching ensures
15# accurate result whether the app was moved or renamed.
16
17function searchCommand() {
18    mdfind kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier="$BUNDLEID" | grep -v "$GOODPATH" > "$SEARCHFILE"
19}
20
21# This function removes all copies *only* if not in correct path.
22
23function removeCommand() {
24    xargs -I{} rm -r {} < "$SEARCHFILE"
25}
26
27searchCommand
28removeCommand