Re: fast find files?
Re: fast find files?
- Subject: Re: fast find files?
- From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:51:17 -0800 (PST)
{hmm... interesting list-name alias there...}
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Philip Aker wrote:
On 2008-02-17, at 14:51:10, Kurt Klamp wrote:
i want to find files in a folder, given a chunk of their name. The folder
has more than 2000 files.
<snip>
Or is there a (free) osax or handler, which do a fast filesearch (case
insensitive or the best with regexp)?
MetaData.osax should be at: <http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~philip/#MetaData.osax>
or, if you don't want the benefits of Philip's osax
set fs_search_root to POSIX path of search_root
set Q to quoted form of search_string
set T to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdfind -onlyin " & fs_search_root & " " & Q)
search_root is a file-system path to the folder (and subfolders) to be
searched.
Q is the query string (file name or content fragment)
mdfind is the guts of Spotlight. With tweaks to the parameters I believe
you should be able to restrict the search to one folder and names only.
-b.johnson, dept of architecture, university of washington, seattle
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