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Filed under: Terminal Tips

Erica mentioned mdfind a little while ago. It’s not a grade new tool, but there hasn’t been a great deal of discussion surrounding it. For shell scripters and Terminal junkies, it’s a goldmine of search goodness that can build

you never want to key out find . -name "letsgogetcoffeewhilewewait.rb" or even locate didcronupdatethedb.yet again.

There are two mdfind options mentioned at Mac OS X Hints that are worth a mention, one found only in the man page, and one found only in the usage info. The former being “-interpret”, which allows the advanced Spotlight query syntax to be used on […]

Orginal post by Brett Terpstra