Extracting .xcarchive files

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How do you (batch) extract the contents of many .xcarchive files?

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I have a crash log from a semi-unknown build, this build would match a dSYM. I have lots of dSYMs from all the builds I have. I need to match the crash log versus the dSYM. The process is detailed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12337755/129202 I have many .xcarchive files with dSYMs, I need to extract the dsym files from the .xcarchive files before I can get their contents. Doing mdls *.dSYM while they are still inside an .xcarchive does not give valid output. I could use Finder to extract the dSYM files but as I have a lot of builds, this is a very tedious task and this leads me to the question, how do you (batch) extract the contents of many .xcarchive files?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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I found out a workaround that does not need extraction of the xcarchives. Run this line instead:

mdls -name com_apple_xcode_dsym_uuids -raw *.xcarchive

This will get the UUIDs printed without extraction. More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16875869/129202

Technically this does not answer the question how to extract xcarchives but it does get the UUID out of the dSYM inside an xcarchive which was my case.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Jan 23 '14 at 02:31

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You should be able to find every .dSYM with mdfind com_apple_xcode_dsym_uuids=* – Vincent Gable Jan 23 '14 at 02:40
where to run this line? in which scope im not getting any results – Amber K Feb 07 '19 at 02:41

Extracting .xcarchive files

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