There is the "locate" UNIX command. This has been turned off since SpotLight was added into the system, but for those that know parts of file names, it could be useful to turn on. Basically the locate command works on a globally readable database of all files on a system and will return very quickly with the path of all files that match the parameter givin on the command line. This is less secure and more global then SpotLight, but for people that are looking often looking over the complete dis is quite a bit more efficient then:
sudo find / -name '*pattern*' -print Jon On 07/10/2010, GEOFF WAALER <geoff.waa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > My recent adventure finding the TimeOfDay script has me curious. I didn't > know the file type, but could determine from the default "t" customization > in keyboard commander that the name was "time of day". Thanks to Nic I now > know that I could have ascertained the path from keyboard help, but my > question is how to locate a fa file under different circumstances. Maybe I > know the name but forgot the type and where I placed it. > > When I attempted to enter "time of day" in either the finder or spotlight it > came back empty, so I'm wondering what I could have done differently? > > TIA and best regards. > Geoff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
