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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> |
|---|---|
| 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 18:41 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrns9b2fe.231d.g.kreme@m1mini.local> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <060520211746433917%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71o6c$4nv$3@dont-email.me> <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me> <060520211841190470%nospam@nospam.invalid> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
In message <060520211841190470%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> 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. > since the query does not begin on a word boundary, the search results > will not be particularly helpful, as in none. But as you can see, you are wrong. >> > it doesn't search >> > everywhere. >> >> It does... ...if you ask it to. > not where it hasn't indexed. Oh, that's just dumb. Yes, of course it will not search in places you have *specifically* told it it cannot search. -- I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
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