obtaining application paths

[Terry Judd]

Well if you have a path to a file whose default application is Mail (or
whatever) then you can...

tell application "System Events" to get the path of the default application
of file <filepath>

...and that doesn't open the application.

There may be other ways though.

HTH,

Terry...


On 31/03/09 7:49 PM, "Jim Sims" <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:

> On OS X the applescript:
> 
> tell application "System Events" to (get path to application "Mail")
> 
> will get the path to an application (in this case "Mail.app").
> However, it seems to need to open that app before it can get the path.
> 
> Is there an applescript or shell script that will tell me the path to
> an application without opening it first?
> 
> I do understand that on can use answer file - but I'd like an
> alternative.
> 
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