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Pull Request Overview
This PR updates the README documentation to explain that starting with version 2.0, mas relies on macOS’ Metadata Server (mds) via Spotlight for associating app IDs with applications.
- Added a new section detailing why
mas list
might return no results. - Provided concrete examples using
mdls
andmdfind
commands to verify app IDs.
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@gforien I might either:
Does 1 seem adequate to you for now? |
Co-authored-by: Ross Goldberg <[email protected]>
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Yes, a message on stderr seems reasonable in this case |
@gforien the changes are all in 2.2.1, which is available from a GitHub Release & the mas Homebrew custom tap. It should be available from homebrew-core in a few minutes; it was just merged into master. Thanks for the help. |
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