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What would you like to do?
Easily search for files based their names or glob patterns, by wrapping Spotlight.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# case-insensitive search for $1, maybe in dir $2
case "$#" in
0) echo "usage: $(basename $0) PATTERN [DIR]"
echo ""
echo " Lists paths of files matching PATTERN in DIR or below"
;;
1) exec mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == '$1'c"
;;
*) exec mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == '$1'c" -onlyin "$2"
;;
esac
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