by Rahel Lüthy
This is how you recursively search all notes.txt
files in your home directory (~
) for the text snippet foo
(from an OSX terminal):
It has at least 3 advantages over the traditional find/grep
combo:
mdfind
is the terminal version of Spotlight: It is blazingly fast because it uses an indexmdfind
does not lead to “Permission denied” noise-0
flag works around spaces in file/folder namesHappy searching!