Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread Kevin
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

Re: Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread James / Hans Kunz
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

Re: Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
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

Re: Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread Glenn Nicholas
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

Re: Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread Rob Davies
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