Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?

From	Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: How often do you rebuild your macOS Big Sur v11's Spotlight indexes?
Date	2021-07-03 21:41 +0200
Message-ID	<ikbsqmFil63U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Aha.

Besides that I did not say either was a good idea, or easy to maintain,
both do the job.  The former isn't even my own idea, comes from the
TextMate Support Group, but you of course can easily find the scopenames
of all installed TextMate2 bundles with Spotlight.

And you can easily find in Spotlight the CPAM modules used in all Perl
scripts other then the ones in Library Downloads and the CPAN modules
itself, of course.

It takes no effort whatsoever to maintain, in particular since there is
no need to maintain.

But then why am I explaining myself to children when I could rather
troll them?

el

On 2021-07-03 18:59 , nospam wrote:
> In article <ikaj5sFapbsU1@mid.individual.net>, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
> <nospam@lisse.NA> wrote:
> 
>> I find files like so:
>>
>>      find ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles \
>>        -depth 1 -name '*.tmbundle' \
>>        -exec bash -c '
>>          tput bold;
>>          echo -n "$(defaults read "{}/info.plist" name): ";
>>          tput sgr0;
>>          echo $(if cd "{}/Syntaxes" 2>/dev/null;
>>               then
>>                  for syntax in *.plist *.tmLanguage;
>>                  do
>>                   if [ -f "${syntax}" ];
>>                   then
>>                     /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c \
>>                        "Print :scopeName" "${syntax}" \
>>                        2>/dev/null \
>>                     | grep -v "[\{\}]";
>>                   fi;
>>                  done;
>>               fi)' \; \
>>        | sort -f
>>
>> or
>>
>> find $HOME -not \( -path $HOME/Library -prune \) \
>>        -not \( -path $HOME/Downloads -prune \) \
>>        -not \( -path $HOME/.cpan -prune \) \
>>        -name '*.pl' \
>>        -type f \
>>        -exec grep ^use {} ';' \
>>      |awk '{print $2}' \
>>      |sed 's/;//g' \
>>      |sort -u \
>>      |grep -v \
>>        -e '#' -e '5.' -e 'v5.10' \
>>        -e ^and \
>>        -e ^Apache \
>>        -e ^base  \
>>        -e ^bytes  \
>>        -e ^constant  \
>>        -e ^experimental \
>>        -e ^feature  \
>>        -e ^fields \
>>        -e ^hasn  \
>>        -e ^lib  \
>>        -e ^open  \
>>        -e ^routines. \
>>        -e ^strict \
>>        -e ^subs \
>>        -e ^sysread  \
>>        -e ^use \
>>        -e ^vars  \
>>        -e ^version \
>>        -e ^warnings \
>>        -e ^when
>>
>> for example.
> 
> looks like 'idiot' was actually a compliment.
> 
> even an idiot is not stupid enough to think the above is a good idea.
> 
> you're also a hypocrite for calling others 'overweight script kiddies'
> when you have your own fucked up script, one which a true script
> kiddie would laugh at.
> 
>> I find that having a very hierarchical $HOME directory and forcing
>> oneself to be consistent in where one puts what, obliviates the need
>> for large scale file shifting.
> 
> what you're doing is not only very slow, highly inefficient and
> *extremely* limited, but it's also *lot* of effort to maintain and
> fundamentally broken.
> 
> the computer is there to do the work for you, not the other way
> around.
> 
>> I have no objections to Spotlight per se, but I haven't needed it
>> either.
> 
> you obviously do have objections to it along with greatly limiting
> your ability to effectively search.
>

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