The big advantage to spotlight is that it is always up to date. Even
changes made seconds prior show up in the results correctly. Locate
is only as up to date as the last indexing. However, locate is fast.
It's not clear to me how you can use locate to find files on a volume
other than the boot disk. Is this possible? I see no options for
where to search, and the locate searches I've done only seem to
return results for the boot volume.
Steve
On Aug 8, 2005, at 5:23 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:
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.
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