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		frou_dh on July 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X I love "mdfind" for near-instant file searching. "mdfind -name AppName" is a good start for a poor man's uninstaller on OS X.

chousuke on July 7, 2010 [–]

For uninstalling things, pkgutil is a useful tool to know about. You can list all installed packages with pkgutil --pkgs and uninstall them by doing pkgutil --unlink pkgid

I wondered for a long time how to uninstall packages from OS X until I discovered pkgutil.

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