On Aug 7, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Stephen Jonke wrote:
mdfind is useful, but you have to know its quirks and limitations.
If you are trying to find something in a hidden directory or in a
system directory, then you need to explicitly do the search on
those directories, moreover you can *not* include the top level
directory as doing so will revert it to a basic search even if some
otherwise hidden directory is included as well (I don't know if
that is a bug or a feature). If you do a basic mdfind it will
exclude many directories, including most of /System.
one can also try locate (man locate for the commad to build the
database that it uses).
I'm not sure how it deals with hidden system files under X.
I like this as you can have it run as a cron job once a day, and
seearching it is fast, doesn't require parsing all the dir trees in
real-time for searches, since the listing is already built, just
search that. Good for when you are doing a few things at once.
B
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