Re: [SCAP-On-Apple] [SCAP-On-Apple-Dev] Mac OS X proposed pkginfo OVAL Test.

On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Peter Link <plink53@mac.com> wrote:

Jasen and Josh, does this help?

system_profiler -xml SPApplicationsDataType > ~/Desktop/SPlist

gives complete listing of all applications found on the Mac, including drivers and anything application related. Output is XML file stored wherever you want it.

Does this only apply to executable content installed through standard installation procedures? For example, if you have Google software (like Chrome) and its software updater regular downloads executables, runs them, then deletes them. Would these executables be captured by system_profiler? What about PHP, Python, R, Bourne shell code, etc.? Are these of interest? Todd