Extension for zsh that gives an auto-completable cd to a simulator data container of the app with the given bundle identifier.

simulator.zsh

# Extension for zsh that cd to a simulator data container of the app with the given bundle identifier. 
#
# See blog post at https://skagedal.github.io/2018/01/02/simcd.html

function simdir () { 
	xcrun simctl get_app_container booted $1 data 
}

function simcd () {
	cd `simdir $1`
}

function simpushd () { 
	pushd `simdir $1` 
}

function simopen() {
	open `simdir $1`
}

function _bundle_identifiers () {
	xcrun simctl listapps booted | plutil -convert json - -o - | ruby -r json -e 'puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read).keys'
}

_simdir() {
	local state

	_arguments \
		'1: :->bundle_identifier'\
		'*: :->rest'

	case $state in
		(bundle_identifier) _arguments '1:Bundle identifier:($(_bundle_identifiers))' ;;
              	(*) compadd "$@"
  	esac
  }

compdef _simdir simdir simcd simpushd simopen

Tip: to list the CFBundleIdentigiers, instead of using a grep + cut + grep hack, you could instead use this, to convert the PLIST to a proper JSON then use ruby to parse and extract the keys from the JSON. Returns the same list of identifiers, but much cleaner.

xcrun simctl listapps booted | plutil -convert json - -o - | ruby -r json -e 'puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read).keys'

@AliSoftware Good call, post and gist updated!

thanks for this gist. if the jq utility is available, there is the even shorter:

xcrun simctl listapps booted | plutil -convert json - -o - | jq -r 'keys | .[]'
# or even 
xcrun simctl listapps booted | plutil -convert json - -o - | jq -r 'keys[]'

That's true, @idcrook! I wanted a solution that would work out of the box on a macOS machine though :)