How am I able to export all of my applications' names on my Mac into a CSV or TXT file?
In a Terminal:
mdfind kMDItemKind="Application" > ~/Desktop/apps.txt
This will create a file named apps.txt
on your Desktop, containing the full paths for everything that OS X considers to be an "Application" on your system.
This is might be a lot more than you want. You can limit the search to a given folder by adding -onlyin <dir>
, so:
mdfind -onlyin /Applications kMDItemKind="Application" > ~/Desktop/apps.txt
will limit the search to the /Applications
folder (and its subfolders). Note that you might also have apps under ~/Applications
, i.e., inside your Home folder.
- Within Finder, open the application folder
- Select All (command+A) and then Copy (command+C)
- Open a new document in TextEdit
- Now go to Edit > Paste and Match Style (or use optionshiftcommand+V)
- Save the text file