I also found the mac_alias, which seemed promising. I didn't have the required libraries and I didn't feel like installing a bunch of stuff, so I gave up on this one. My $alis = GetIndResource('alis', 1) or die $Mac::Errors::MacError # get resource by index get first "alis" resource My $res = FSpOpenResFile($path, 0) or die $Mac::Errors::MacError My $path = '/Users/pudge/Desktop/some alias' It contained the following Perl script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl The blog post Stupid Mac OS X Tricks: Resolving Aliases also looks like it might have a solution. Then I verified the Alias using the getTrueName program. e "make new alias to file (posix file \"$\") at desktop" \Īlias file alias-target of folder Desktop of folder user of folder Users of disk MacHD #define CHECK(rc,check_value) if ((check_value) != noErr) exit((rc)) Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, License along with this program if not, write to the Free You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public General Public License for more details. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but License, or (at your option) any later version. published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as This program is free software you can redistribute it and/or warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'FSPathMakeRef' Note: gcc version 4 reports the following warning gcc-3.3 -o getTrueName -framework Carbon getTrueName.c was an alias, or 1 if the argument given was not an alias The error number returned is 255 on error, 0 if the file name of the "Original" or actual file. Resolve HFS and HFS+ aliased files (and soft links), and return the Here is the source code: // getTrueName.c
It referenced a small open-source C program called getTrueName.c. My favorite came from the blog post Make Terminal Follow Aliases Like Symlinks. These led me to several potential solutions.
OS X terminal command to resolve path of an alias How to query target of all Finder aliases? I found a few relevant StackExchange posts:
Unfortunately the second part of this question was surprisingly more difficult to resolve. In fact, mdfind is one of the things I miss most about OSX when I'm on Linux. The query can be a string or a query expression.
The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. In general you can use the mdfind (MetaData Find) command to (very) quickly search for files. Here is the command to find aliases: mdfind kMDItemKind="Alias"
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