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Spotlight issue
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Is there a way to get spotlight to recognize substrings inside files instead of just whole strings? E.g.: say I'm searching on the string "ndvpl". In the files I'm searching, there will be strings like "qndvpl" or "xndvpl", and maybe even just "ndvpl". I want ALL of those files to be found by spotlight, not just the exact string matches. Is this possible?
(The files in question are pdf files, so I don't think the unix "find" command would work in this case.)
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find pdf | pdf2txt | grep ndvpl
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Originally Posted by mduell
find pdf | pdf2txt | grep ndvpl
pdf2txt doesn't seem to be a built-in command.
In any event, I'd really prefer to not have to do this in a terminal - I paid good money for this mac, I really think I should be able to do this without having to be a unix guru. Is there really no way to do this in spotlight, or from the gui somewhere?
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Posting Junkie
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Well right, that wasn't a literal command, just pseudocode for an idea of how to achieve your goal.
I'm not sure I understand how paying "good money" has anything to do with your ability to do something through a GUI; seems entirely non sequitur. What makes you think there's a way to do it through the GUI when you haven't been able to find a way to do it?
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I didn't say that there was a way to do it. I was asking if there was. It just seems odd to me that spotlight will only let you search on whole strings, at least where pdf is concerned. That's a pretty crippling "feature".
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