On Dec 11, 2003, at 3:04 AM, Charles Martin wrote:
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.
Actually glimpse and similar packages blow grep away. First of all they preindex things so it's much faster. Second, they have more sophisticated choices than simple regular expressions. Glimpse, for instance, allows you to specify how many character differences you're willing to accept.
I agree that it's puzzling they didn't make more search options available directly from the finder, but I bet they will.
Mike Beede
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