Does a Mac have this?
A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a MacBook. He is lamenting the absence of a PC search called 'Wildcards'. The techo term for Wildcards is 'regular expressions' (regex). He has loads of data on external drives and if he searches with a search word in spotlight it won't find what he is after, but on his PC 'Wildcards' finds all references to the search word. He asked me about it but I haven't a clue. Is there something that enhances a spotlight search on Mac? thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Does a Mac have this?
easy find is one to manage cd/dvds other external media i'm using diskcatalogmaker (shareware) James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 18/07/2011, at 4:05 PM, Kevin wrote: A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a MacBook. He is lamenting the absence of a PC search called 'Wildcards'. The techo term for Wildcards is 'regular expressions' (regex). He has loads of data on external drives and if he searches with a search word in spotlight it won't find what he is after, but on his PC 'Wildcards' finds all references to the search word. He asked me about it but I haven't a clue. Is there something that enhances a spotlight search on Mac? thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Does a Mac have this?
Hi Kevin I don't like spotlight for that reason! I use EasyFind and there are a couple on the app store and I am sure many others :) Roger On Mon Jul 18 16:05 , Kevin kal...@iinet.net.au sent: A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a MacBook. He is lamenting the absence of a PC search called 'Wildcards'. The techo term for Wildcards is 'regular expressions' (regex). He has loads of data on external drives and if he searches with a search word in spotlight it won't find what he is after, but on his PC 'Wildcards' finds all references to the search word. He asked me about it but I haven't a clue. Is there something that enhances a spotlight search on Mac? thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Does a Mac have this?
Spotlight has quite a few search operators available. http://www.askdavetaylor.com/spotlight_insider_power_search_tricks_mac_spotlight.html Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 18 July 2011 16:05, Kevin kal...@iinet.net.au wrote: A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a MacBook. He is lamenting the absence of a PC search called 'Wildcards'. The techo term for Wildcards is 'regular expressions' (regex). He has loads of data on external drives and if he searches with a search word in spotlight it won't find what he is after, but on his PC 'Wildcards' finds all references to the search word. He asked me about it but I haven't a clue. Is there something that enhances a spotlight search on Mac? thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/**mailinglist/archives.shtmlhttp://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/**mailinglist/guidelines.shtmlhttp://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscribe@**wamug.org.auwamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Does a Mac have this?
Morning, OS X is a NIX OS, so many tools available via Terminal. Locate is such a tool, just type locate with any part of file or whatever you are looking for. Locate will find many variables, highlight then right click use Services, then open to run. Initialising is simple just run following line within terminal, or wait a week after initial install. sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Also again if machine is switched of daily as OS X updates database at 4.30am Saturdays? Various programs can assist with such tasks, Cocktail being one of them. www.maintain.se Cheers! `RobD... On 18Jul2011, at 4:05 pm, Kevin wrote: A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a MacBook. He is lamenting the absence of a PC search called 'Wildcards'. The techo term for Wildcards is 'regular expressions' (regex). He has loads of data on external drives and if he searches with a search word in spotlight it won't find what he is after, but on his PC 'Wildcards' finds all references to the search word. He asked me about it but I haven't a clue. Is there something that enhances a spotlight search on Mac? thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
