Re: Getting Info from the Finder
Re: Getting Info from the Finder
- Subject: Re: Getting Info from the Finder
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:14:48 -0700
At 8:47 PM -0500 5/17/10, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>I don¹t think mdls is synonymous with Spotlight, mdls lists metadata for files, spotlight finds files,but I¹m missing something, right?
Spotlight indexes files and uses the index for a variety of purposes, finding files by content being one of them. There are GUI apps which use the index as well as command line tools:
mdimport indexes a file with Spotlight.
mdls is the "list files" application which provides info about files.
mdfind allows you to find files from a shell script (or AppleScript)
mdutil provides ways to manage the accumulated metadata.
mdcheckschema checks schemas for Spotlight importer authors
All of these have man pages available.
Jon
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