But I'd like more specific examples of making a search that way before I undertake.
-don
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 04:04 AM, Charles Martin wrote:
From: Don Hinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Good idea, but nope, don't make no difference, Find still finds just the single words and no combo. Is it that difficult to make a searcher find a word combination?
Actually, Mac OS X already has on board one of the most powerful search engines you're ever likely to need -- grep. But if you wish to avoid using the CLI, someone has felt your pain and written a GUI utility to take advantage of grep -- it's called Greppie, and it costs $15 (way overpriced IMHO). You can get it from versiontracker.com.
As to why Apple didn't incorporate at least some of grep's more powerful searching ability into Find? Hard to say, but I suspect they figured that people who were savvy enough to need that powerful a find engine would be comfortable with the CLI. A mistake IMHO.
_Chas_ ...
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