How to find the bundle ID of a Mac app
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I was running a script and I had the need to find the bundle ID of one app I had installed.
The bundle ID is the string that looks like a domain, but written in the opposite way.
Like com.apple.finder
or com.microsoft.VSCode
.
Here’s the script you can use:
osascript -e 'id of app "Finder"'
osascript
is a tool that runs AppleScript. That AppleScript code, id of app "Finder"
, asks the Mac for the bundle ID of the app with the name we passed to it.
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