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Is "Wish" and Apple application?

Is Wish an Apple application? I have never seen Wish before, so did not launch it. I am concerned because I have never seen this application before. I don't know if it is an Apple application or whether it was installed with another application I purchased. Or whether it is something malicious.


I exported records from FileMaker Pro 11 Advanced as a .csv file. From the Finder, I right-clicked and select Open With... (see photo attached)


User uploaded file


I noticed Wish (8.5.7) and Wish (8.4.19), but they cannot be found in the Applications folder or subfolders within the Applications folder, nor through Spotlight. I am running on Snow Leopard (10.6.8 with all the latest updates). I have never seen these applications before and am therefore concerned.


Has anyone seen these or know where they come from?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 27, 2011 1:17 PM

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Dec 27, 2011 4:40 PM in response to Steve Stearns

Steve Stearns wrote:


Is Wish an Apple application?

No, but it is included in the Mac OS X distribution. As Mark Jalbert says, it's part of the Tcl/Tk programming language software. See <http://www.tcl.tk/> for more on Tcl/Tk.

they cannot be found in the Applications folder or subfolders within the Applications folder, nor through Spotlight.

That's because, by design, Spotlight doesn't search </System> or </Library>, or indeed many other locations on the boot volume. And not all applications are in </Applications> or <~/Applications>. If you want a complete list of applications, launch System Profiler ( > About This Mac > More Info), scroll to Software, click on Applications, then wait until the list is populated. Click on an item, and you'll find version information and its precise location.

Dec 27, 2011 5:20 PM in response to X423424X

X423424X wrote:


By any chance do you have TextMate installed?

I'm sorry, but I don't see that it has anything to do with TextMate -- even if the OP does have TextMate. I don't, but Wish is still listed in Open With on my machine.


The reason is simple -- CSV files are plain text files (those generated from Excel still have the type signature "TEXT", as they should), and Wish registers itself as a viewer of text files. Its Info.plist says


<key>CFBundleTypeMIMETypes</key>

...

<string>text/plain</string>

...

<key>CFBundleTypeOSTypes</key>

...

<string>TEXT</string>

...


This means that Wish should appear in the Open With list for any file which has the type signature "TEXT" or the MIME type plain text. TextMate doesn't come into the picture.

Dec 27, 2011 5:49 PM in response to fane_j

Is Wish an Apple application?


Well actually yes. On my 10.6.5 I found it burried in:


/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Resources/Wish.app


So I assume if anything causes it to launch it will be recorded in Launch Services and thus a candidate app for appropriate files listed by Get Info.


Also in there is,


/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Resources/Wish Shell.app


And I mention that to try to answer the next quote...

I'm sorry, but I don't see that it has anything to do with TextMate -- even if the OP does have TextMate. I don't, but Wish is still listed in Open With on my machine.


I mentioned TextMate because it was mentioned in that link to that other discussion. And out of curiousity I downloaded TextMate 1.5.10 and fished around in it and found a line burried deep within its bundle:


run_detached("PATH=#{File.dirname(git.git)}:$PATH && gitk --all", "Wish Shell")


I don't speek this particular language but I assume under some circumstance TextMate will run the Wish Shell app. Of course I don't know the Wish Shell's relation to the Wish app.

Is "Wish" and Apple application?

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