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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 | 2021-05-08 09:53 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrns9cns9.1g5p.g.kreme@m1mini.local> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me> <060520211841190470%nospam@nospam.invalid> <slrns9b2fe.231d.g.kreme@m1mini.local> <070520212033557094%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s74u5f$she$2@dont-email.me> |
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In message <s74u5f$she$2@dont-email.me> Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote: > On 2021-05-07 5:33 p.m., nospam wrote: >> 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. >> > They are two interfaces to the same facility. and searching for "ology" brings up the same items, and the same news archive post from 2016. -- "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Well, I think so, Brain, but pantyhose are so uncomfortable in the summertime."
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