@davepolaschek@writing.exchange
2026-07-08 20:43 UTC
According to an email I received, there used to be a tool called "aliastool" available in HomeBrew for the #Mac. It could, from the command-line, spit out the full path that a Mac Alias file pointed to.
If I attempt "brew install aliastool" today, I get a warning:
Warning: No available formula with the name "aliastool". Did you mean libtool or itstool?
So I wonder, did this tool actually exist in the past, or is it an AI hallucination quoted in the email I received? #askFedi
Replies (2)
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@wwberrutti@ohai.social 2026-07-08 20:45
@davepolaschek@writing.exchange Maybe it's this? https://github.com/kch/aliastool
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@seiz@mastodon.social 2026-07-08 22:29
@davepolaschek@writing.exchange here's a shell script which gets the Alias Location via AppleScript. Probably only works if you're logged into the Mac. That was what i could find *. https://seiz.it/downloads/getaliaslocation.sh.zip * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/409589/how-can-i-locate-all-mac-os-x-alias-files-and-find-their-target-files-despite