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Security Mass Deployment Uncategorized  Viewing Mac App Store
Purchases From The Command Line  As you may have noticed, we’ve
been working on building some links between the App Store and
patch management tools such as Casper, FileWave and Munki. We’ve
been looking at policy-based management of apps as well. In this
semi-new world of signing and stores and the such, there’s
actually a good bit you can ascertain about an app both inside
the app as well as inside metadata OS X keeps about the app.
I’ve discussed signing (apps and packages) in the past, but
let’s look at using some commands to help us out with some
tasks.  The first command is to determine some information about
apps that are on the computer. Spotlight keeps a fair amount of
information about these apps and can be invoked using the mdls
command. Running the command with no additional parameters looks
like this (I’m gonna’ use iMovie in these examples, although
note that there are spaces i