Re: [Avid-L2] Way OT: searching for 'packages' but not folder/directories or files.

.dmg will only return files that have .dmg as the file name extension.  It will not return .app, .pkg, .mpkg, .photolibrary, etc.

Jay

On Apr 8, 2021, at 4:49 PM, C. Hess <cfh3media@gmail.com> wrote:

Would .dmg work?

Mac used to have a different extension for these,

but that has been quite awhile.

On Apr 8, 2021, at 4:26 PM, Jay Mahavier via groups.io <jay_mahavier=icloud.com@groups.io> wrote:

This is super extra OT, but hoping that I can find some help here that doesn't go to far unix guru (because I'm not that smart).

I'm on a Mac, OS 10.13, and I want to search through some old backup drives and find all the 'packages' but just the packages and not things that identify as regular folder/directories or regular files.

Packages being things like Applications, .photolibraries, installer packages, etc.  They are technically a directory, like a folder, but present at a file.  So if you do a command line list (ls -l) they have a d upfront.  And at the finder level if you right click on them you get an option to show package contents.

So I'm looking for a way to find anything that is in this weird category, but I don't want to find 'normal' directories and files.

Does anyone have any tips, tricks, or tools to help me do this?


Thank you very much.

Jay

Chip Hess
CFH3 Media
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