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Mac OS® X Tiger™ Unleashed
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Mac OS® X Tiger™ Unleashed

by John Ray, William Ray
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
45h 7m
English
Sams
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Searching for Files, Directories, and More

Unix traditionally has provided useful tools for searching for files by name and content, and Apple has expanded on these by making available a command-line interface into the same databases that the Finder uses to locate files. Unix's traditional tools don't work from a database like the Finder's file searching function does, so they run more slowly. On the other hand, they aren't hampered by needing a database to run or by being only as current in their results as the last database update.

Finding Files: locate, find, mdfind

Sometimes you want to find some files, but you are not sure where they are. Three tools are available to search for files: locate, find and mdfind. Despite having the same purpose, ...

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