Tech Reflect

Spotlight can be powerful and fast, but lacks some precise control over the results. Typically you get far more results than you would ever need. The command-line interface unlocks more advanced functionality and you can also integrate it into your scripts.

The core command is “mdfind” and you could do …

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You can do some really interesting and time saving things using curly braces on the bash command line. Essentially, curly braces with a list of things separated by commas means run this command once for each item in the list.

This is best illustrated by a number of examples.

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