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

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From	Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
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Subject	Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything?
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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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