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Find Intellij installations with Spotlight query on macOS - #80479
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Thanks for adding that!
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mdfind handles glob parsing?
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It actually has an entire query expression format.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/SpotlightQuery/Concepts/QueryFormat.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001849-CJBEJBHH
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In addition to hard-coded
ApplicationsIntellij install locations, on macOS also query Spotlight (the app search engine when you cmd-space) for all installs by searching with the command line toolmdfindfor the app's bundle identifier (com.jetbrains.intellij.ceor fall back tocom.jetbrains.intellij*).Now on my machine I see
IntelliJ IDEAwhere I didn't before because the(stable)suffix in the app names prevented it from showing up:Fixes #43964
See also #80475 and #80477