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The Power of mdfind
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mdfind2 |
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2006-01-07 22:42:12 |
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schwa
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Response to: mdfind2
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What you're suggesting is a mdls command that takes a --xml switch. You could then use something like:
mdfind -0 'foo' | xargs -o mdls --xml
Unfortunately mdls doesn't take a --xml switch. So I'd have to write a "mdls2" command and I bet someone would complain that "too bad you decrease its usefulness and adaptability by making it a standalone replacement for mdfind".
Of course if you truly wished to harness the "flexibility and power of the command line tradition" then you could take the output of mdfind, pipe it through xargs and mdls and then through some awful sed/awk/perl abomination to convert the output of mdls into xml... I'm sure it would be extremely graceful, easy to use and easy to maintain...
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