i use a combo of mdfind and grep, i dont touch, though ss am being a good girl
On 3/6/17, 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Jon, you are absolutely right, sorry for the over-simplification here. > I guess I was trying to make things more simple then they are to advertise > the use of the terminal for tasks like searching for files. > Personally I use the terminal quite frequently because it is "always > accessible" > But once you get to the point where you want - for instance - to filter > your search results through egrep you'll need to write a real RegEx with .* > > to match all characters. > /Roland > > > Am Sonntag, 5. März 2017 21:00:51 UTC+1 schrieb Jon: >> >> Quick note here, the pattern match you mention below is not considered a >> Regular expression but instead a "glob expression". >> >> The primary difference is that in a glob * means match any number of any >> characters, while in a regular expression it would be ".*" in other words >> >> having a period before the *. This is because regular expressions use all >> >> punctuation to mean something special >> >> The period is used to match any character. >> The star means zero or more of the immediately preceding pattern (in this >> >> case . or any character). >> >> Generally in UNIX like systems which terminal brings you to a bSD UNIX >> environment, most places where you are requesting a matching of file names >> >> u are using a glob pattern and not a regular expression. >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan Cohn >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:25 AM, 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries < >> macvisi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> >> >> I have some big folders that I need to search through forcertain files. I >> >>> know i should be able to do it with finder but for some reason that does >>> >>> not work so well for me in the latest os x. I was wondering if there are >>> >>> any good vo accessible finder alternatives that work well? >>> >>> Well, it may sound trivial but if I need to search a folder I simply open >>> >> Terminal, navigate to the folder I want to start my search from and then >> type >> find ./ -name MyFileStartsWith* >> replacing MyFileStartsWith with the part of the file name I am looking >> for. You can use any regular expression for your All files matching your >> criteria are then listed. >> /Roland >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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