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Links du jour: Saturday 10/13
Merlin Mann | Oct 13 2007
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Spotlight via the CLI
You probably could code any sort of Spotlight UI you wanted if you use mdfind, which gives you CLI access to the Spotlight meta database.
man mdfindin the Terminal for more info (or view the manpage here.)better spotlight UIs
Hi Merlin, you might be interested in a little python program I created a couple of years ago which allows me to quickly create new smart folders from Quicksilver using a natural English syntax.
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—Jacob Rus