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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 3 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. zikduruqe ◴[06 Nov 24 14:53 UTC] No.42063206[source]▶

    locate
https://ss64.com/mac/locate.html

locate searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. The database is recomputed periodically, (about once a week) and contains the path-names of all files which are publicly accessible.

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2. emmelaich ◴[06 Nov 24 15:24 UTC] No.42063730[source]▶
The database is not set up by default.

Your better bet on MacOS is to use `mdfind -name ....`

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3. kstrauser ◴[06 Nov 24 17:16 UTC] No.42065589[source]▶
I have that aliased to `locate` on mine. It's not exactly the same but it gets me 99% of the way there.