17 Dec 2009

osx terminal lsbom command

osx, security 170 Comments

lsbom can be used to examine the contents of a Mac OS X installer (.pkg)
It will give you a very detailed view of all the files a package intends to install on your Mac.

From the osx terminal just type
lsbom .pkg/Contents/Archive.bom> | more

If your installer came as a disk image then you can copy the .dmg to your Desktop and Show Package Contents to locate the .pkg file.

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