OSX shell script for carrying out a spotlight search on words in all PDFs from the proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

NIME-proceedings-analysis-script

#!/bin/sh
clear
echo "Outputting some NIME data"
max=2013
for ((i=2001; i<=$max; ++i )) ; 
do
	echo "NIME $i"
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i music
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i gesture
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i action
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i motion
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i movement
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i emotion
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i expressive
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i "motion capture"
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i accelerometer
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i wii
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i kinect
	mdfind -count -onlyin $i "leap motion"
done