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Generate an alphabetized list of all of the apps that are installed on your Mac which came from the Mac App Store, and open the list in a text file.
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| find /Applications -type d -user 0 -iname _MASReceipt -maxdepth 3 -print \ | |
| | sed 's#/Contents/_MASReceipt##g' \ | |
| | sort -f \ | |
| | open -f |
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Line 1 = look in /Applications folder for folders (-type d) which are owned by root (-user 0) with the name "_MASReceipt" (-iname _MASReceipt) which are found no more than 3 levels deep (-maxdepth 3) and show the result (-print)
That will give results that look like this:
/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/_MASReceipt
/Applications/Microsoft OneNote.app/Contents/_MASReceipt
/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/_MASReceipt
/Applications/Microsoft PowerPoint.app/Contents/_MASReceipt
/Applications/Microsoft Remote Desktop.app/Contents/_MASReceipt
/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/_MASReceipt
where
because
findis starting from /Applications/.Line 2 = remove the "/Contents/_MASReceipt" part of each line
LIne 3 = sort the list alphabetically while ignoring case
LIne 4 = send the output to the default text editor (probably TextEdit) and open in a temp file which you can save if you want.
If you use BBEdit you can change the last line to
| bbedit --scratchpadto send it to BBEdit's "scratchpad" instead of TextEdit.