Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything?

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything?
Date	2021-05-07 20:33 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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In article <slrns9b2fe.231d.g.kreme@m1mini.local>, Lewis
<g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

> > consider a bunch of documents and/or folders of medical specialties,
> > such as toxicology, cardiology, physiology, anesthesiology, oncology,
> > dermatology, radiology, neurology, and ophthalmology.
> 
> > you want to find all of them, so you search for common letters, in this
> > case, 'ology'. 
> 
> mdfind ology -onlyin ~ | wc -l
>   43
> grep ology ~/Documents/newsposts/20160130-100600.news
> >> for example, let's say you want to find items such as psychology,
> >> biology, oncology and physiology, so you search on 'ology' because
> >> however, if you want to find items such as psychology and psychiatry
> find files containing "biology" and "psychology" that way. Restrictive
> --- Biology psychology oncology physiology
> --- Biology or psychology or oncology or physiology
> And neither search would find sociology.
> 
> ***END
> 
> Seems like you may have made this same flawed argument in the past (I did not
> check the entire message, maybe it wasn't you.

i'm referring to the command-space version, which is what just about
everyone uses, not the command line.

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