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kcrawford / dockutil

command line tool for managing dock items
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Check if Application exist before adding to the dock #121

Closed mvdbent closed 2 years ago

mvdbent commented 2 years ago

the specifying paths in macOS 10 Catalina or higher note that the path to default Apple Applications is /System/Applications trigger me to reports this.

If you look into your Application folder, you will see the TextEdit application, however if you want to add the TextEdit.app the path is /System/Applications/TextEdit.app not /Applications/TextEdit.app (like how you see this in the GUI) but if you run this command dockutil --add /Applications/TextEdit.app dockutil will add TextEdit with a Question mark in the dock. unfortunately, dockutil doesn't check if the application exists on the device. For solve this you can create a function that will check if the application exists before he will run the command.


It would be a great feature if dockutil first check if the path is valid (is the app there) and if not just error out with message that application path is not valid.

kcrawford commented 2 years ago

This will be in 3.0.1 version. If the item doesn't exist in /Applications but does exist in /System/Applications it will use the /System/Applications path.

Thanks for the suggestion.