What am I doing wrong here?
keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ mdfind -name Xcode.app
keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ ls -d /Applications/Xcode.app/
0 /Applications/Xcode.app//
Mdfind does not return anything, yet it is there.
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On Nov 7, 2014, at 00:51, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:
What am I doing wrong here?
keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ mdfind -name Xcode.app
keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ ls -d /Applications/Xcode.app/
0 /Applications/Xcode.app//
Mdfind does not return anything, yet it is there.
Indeed,
On Nov 6, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 7, 2014, at 00:51, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:
What am I doing wrong here?
keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ mdfind -name Xcode.app
keybounceMBP:tmp michael$ ls -d
-name search only match on the filename portion of bundles.
It may not be quite that simple, but I know it works as expected with .pdf
.txt .jpg etc extensions, but things like .app and .sparsebundle are only
matched on the name portion.
I don’t think this is new/
But it's not very
on 2014-11-06 18:50 Michael wrote
mdfind -name Xcode
returns every file with Xcode anywhere in the filename. Case insensitive.
What's the proper way to use mdfind?
mdfind kMDItemFSName == XCode.app
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