There’s a MOSX command line tool, that many people are unaware of called “file”. \u00c2\u00a0This application will give you information about what architectures applications will run on, and if it’s not an application, it will attempt to identify what the file is.<\/p>\n

dhcp105-53:~ Ben$ file test.pdf<\/div>\n

test.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3<\/div>\n

dhcp105-53:~ Ben$ file test.pdf\r\ntest.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3\r\n\r\ndhcp105-53:MacOS Ben$ file iChat\r\niChat: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures\r\niChat (for architecture x86_64):\tMach-O 64-bit executable x86_64\r\niChat (for architecture i386):\tMach-O executable i386\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\nWhat does all of this mean?<\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMessage<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n Meaning<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture ppc<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n 32 bit PowerPC Executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture ppc64<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n 64 bit PowerPC Executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture i386<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n 32 bit Bit Intel executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture x86_64<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n 64 bit Bit Intel executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThe caveat is for applications, you need to actually use file on the executable file, not on the Application Bundle.<\/p>\n
So, you will need to open the bundle, and transverse to Contents > MacOS, so for example, for iChat:<\/p>\n
cd \/Applications\/iChat.app\/Contents\/MacOS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Message<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n	Meaning<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture ppc<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n	32 bit PowerPC Executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture ppc64<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n	64 bit PowerPC Executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture i386<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n	32 bit Bit Intel executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture x86_64<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n	64 bit Bit Intel executable<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n The caveat is for applications, you need to actually use file on the executable file, not on the Application Bundle.<\/p>\n So, you will need to open the bundle, and transverse to Contents > MacOS, so for example, for iChat:<\/p>\n cd \/Applications\/iChat.app\/Contents\/MacOS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Folks, There’s a MOSX command line tool, that many people are unaware of called “file”. \u00c2\u00a0This application will give you information about what architectures applications will run on, and if it’s not an application, it will attempt to identify what the file is. For example: dhcp105-53:~ Ben$ file test.pdf test.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3 dhcp105-53:~ […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[208,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}