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A Better Command Line Find

Mon Oct 24 21:58:00 2005

If you're coming to OS X from UNIX, like me, then you're probably comfortable with the command line and you probably know your way around the find command. I use it all the time for finding files. Since I upgraded to Tiger, I use Spotlight a lot more, but there are still times when I want to find things on the command line. Apple has thoughtfully provided a Spotlight enabled version of find called mdfind Using mdfind is easy: just type the command followed by whatever you'd enter in the Spotlight search box. You'll get back a list of
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