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Here’s a nice little one-liner for listing the current version and installation date of every application on your OS X system, using the wonders of Spotlight:

mdfind “kMDItemKind == ‘Application’” | perl -ne ‘chomp; print “\”$_\”\n” ‘ | xargs mdls -name kMDItemFSContentChangeDate -name kMDItemVersion -name kMDItemDisplayName -name kMDItemPath | perl -pe ’s/^\/.+/”-” x 20/e’

Sample output:

kMDItemDisplayName         = "MarsEdit.app"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2006-03-13 22:58:25 -0500
kMDItemPath                = "/Applications/3rdPartyApps/Write/MarsEdit.app"
kMDItemVersion             = "1.1.2"
--------------------
kMDItemDisplayName         = "OmniWeb.app"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2007-02-14 17:23:51 -0500
kMDItemPath                = "/Applications/3rdPartyApps/Connect/OmniWeb.app"
kMDItemVersion             = "5.5.4"
--------------------
kMDItemDisplayName         = "CandyBar.app"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2006-04-14 18:40:52 -0400
kMDItemPath                = "/Applications/3rdPartyApps/Tinker/prettify/CandyBar.app"
kMDItemVersion             = "2.6.1"
--------------------
kMDItemDisplayName         = "Vienna.app"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2007-01-27 13:38:17 -0500
kMDItemPath                = "/Applications/3rdPartyApps/Connect/Vienna.app"
kMDItemVersion             = "2.1.1.2109"

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