@ bob
try it in msg
put $HOME
see the dictionary for $
but this is one more of those "Alice in wonderland features" of LC that you
will only discover after you fall into the hole (hehe) like the long owner of
the target
"why index"
to locate and find return the long paths to the files discovered.
this has very high utility for "fuzzy" logic filtering based on simple LC
string line filtering. I once had a CGI on our XServer that could read the
entire box in milliseconds and a search engine interface that could return
details lists for a over a million files on that box in milliseconds and the
filters were awesome… by volume + extension or path string etc… then Apple
killed off xServe we switch to Synology storage and lost a lot of services (and
also a lot of admin pain too)
So I want to adapt this to run on any local machine. We have FoxTrot Pro… which
will actually index the contents, but again, some app designers don't know when
to stop… but typically 98% of the search if a path/filename query if you have
300,000 image on your hard drive locally and you are building (app|keynote|
movie |newsletter) then spotlight doesn't cut it… I also have an javasript that
will drive collections of found files to Adobe's Bridge which then serves as a
kind of slave for a visible catalogs of search results.
@ Alex: Yes! thanks
this works adding quotes plus -print
put format ("find ~/ -iname \"*.livecode\" -print") into tShell
put shell(tShell)
A tad slow.. but good enough. Why Apple will not allow locate to index the
user's home directory is mysterious… probalby is a way.. because the located
dbase is so much faster and changes are rare enough that running updates on a
bi-weekly cron would be good enough.
And this in fact goes to documentation for LC… e.g. if we had an LC concordance
then if you a search for "target" would turn up
the long owner of the target.. Hmm interesting I search in spotlight for
dictionary and the typed Concordance (wasn't yet in dictionaryh and hit on
SSBookConcordance.rev something that Hugh created.
On 8/9/17, 1:15 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode"
<use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Not sure what $Home is. I didn't know you could refer to your home folder
that way. But keep in mind that you can change what Spotlight does and does not
index. you home folder typically is not a place you would create new folders
and files for. What would be the point to indexing it?
Bob S
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