List Full Download History of Your Mac

List Full Download History of Your Mac - Mac OS X's quarantine feature not only sets a special quarantine bit on files you download - so it can alert you the first time you open them, and so its built-it anti-malware feature can scan for certain threats - but it also keeps a list of the files you have downloaded. OS X Daily pointed out the command you can run in Terminal to see the full list of these downloads. Run this command:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent'

The resulting text includes a lot of blank lines, so you might want to sort them to better view them: ...

(Via MacOSXHints.com.)