Shell script to return list of all apps in Applications folder

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An alternative to trawling through the file-system for file-names which match a string pattern might be to explore the options of the pkgutil shell command.

For a listing of installed applications, identified by bundle id, for example:

pkgutil --pkgs

For other options:

man pkgutil

To define a general listing of the names of package-installed applications, the macro below embeds a call to pkgutil --pkgs in a JavaScript which obtains and sorts application names:

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