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on July 16, 2012
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Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline
Seems like
alias locate='mdfind'
is in order (on my system).
jasomill
on July 17, 2012
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mdfind is basically orthogonal to locate (doesn't match individual files inside packages; handles wildcards differently), but it does produce find(1)-compatible output, which is nice:
http://jasomill.at/mdfind-dired.el
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alias locate='mdfind'
is in order (on my system).