Extracting .xcarchive files

Question

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

The story:

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?

Answer 1

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.