Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
- Subject: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
- From: Mark Lively <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:07:25 -0500
On 1/24/06, Jason Davies <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Find "sort of" exists still on the top right of every Finder window - a text
> > box with a magnifying glass icon. It finds by name offering a choice of
> > where to search. Is this what you mean?
>
> that's not what it does here. The old drop-down menu for that box that offered locations in 10.3.9 is gone and it returns files containing the word in the text as well as the name as far as I can see. Am I missing something obvious here? (eg I typed in 'dream' and got files called "0,6109,1661516,00.html" (amongst others).
>
> I have hundreds, maybe thousands of text files on disk. Searching by contents would be an act of utter desperation and I could already do it with BBEdit (and get a better sense of the context from the results, which admittedly took longer). Add email to that number and I'm getting literally thousands of hits on some words that are only in the titles of maybe 20 files (I choose titles with care!).
do shell script "find ~ -iname *dream*" --to find in your home directory
do shell script "find / -iname *dream*" --to find everywhere
do shell script "find " & quoted form of POSIX path of (choose folder)
& " -iname *" & (text returned of (display dialog "What are you
looking for?" default answer "dream")) & "*"
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