Hi,
Jonathan, I think Geoff was asking about why his Spotlight search
didn't automatically bring up the TimeofDay AppleScript and why we're
describing various commands run in terminal like "find" and
"locate" (or, although we haven't mentioned this, the command line
equivalent to the Spotlight search is the "mdfind" command.) Here's a
quote from the Macworld wiki on Snow Leopard Glitches and Gripes,
where users posted their suggested gripes, and various responses were
made:
http://wiki.macworld.com/index.php/Snow_Leopard_Glitches_and_Gripes
<begin excerpt>
"Does Spotlight still not search the Library folders? This is my
number-one annoyance in Leopard." Spotlight doesn't search Library
folders by default because for most users most of the time it's not a
sensible place to search. With certain exceptions that are already
handled by Spotlight, Library is a developers' playground, much like
System is Apple's. If you invoke a search with Cmd-F you can use the
criteria popup to tell the search you *do* want to look in system and
library folders, and you can promote that option to the menu full time
so you don't have to dig through the huge list of other criteria.
<end excerpt>
Here's an old web page that turned up in a Google search that might
give Geoff some insight into the various search command usage. Some
of the details about getting packages are extraneous, but the examples
of the command searches might be useful.
http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/Searching.html
(Searching and Finding with Mac OS X)
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 7, 2010, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
There is the "locate" UNIX command. This has been turned off since
SpotLight was added into the system, but for those that know parts of
file names, it could be useful to turn on. Basically the locate
command works on a globally readable database of all files on a system
and will return very quickly with the path of all files that match the
parameter givin on the command line. This is less secure and more
global then SpotLight, but for people that are looking often looking
over the complete dis is quite a bit more efficient then:
sudo find / -name '*pattern*' -print
Jon
On 07/10/2010, GEOFF WAALER <[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings,
My recent adventure finding the TimeOfDay script has me curious. I
didn't
know the file type, but could determine from the default "t"
customization
in keyboard commander that the name was "time of day". Thanks to
Nic I now
know that I could have ascertained the path from keyboard help, but
my
question is how to locate a fa file under different circumstances.
Maybe I
know the name but forgot the type and where I placed it.
When I attempted to enter "time of day" in either the finder or
spotlight it
came back empty, so I'm wondering what I could have done differently?
TIA and best regards.
Geoff
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