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From: Alexandre Ferrieux on 7 Jun 2010 09:30
On Jun 7, 12:37 am, Kevin Walzer <k...(a)codebykevin.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/10 3:38 AM, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
>
> > On Jun 1, 5:25 am, Kevin Walzer<k...(a)codebykevin.com>  wrote:
> >> I'm writing a C-based Tcl extension that iterates through the file
> >> system to build a list of file names that contain a specific string.
> >> (It's a Mac-specific API that is faster than glob or find.)
>
> > Out of curiosity, isn't there, somewhere in the OSX utilities, a find-
> > like standalone executable that uses this faster API, that you could
> > [open |] ?
>
> > -Alex
>
> Not that I'm aware of. The answer is to include Tcl_SetObjResult(ip,
> data) in my code...

Doesn't mdfind do things like that ?

-Alex

From: Kevin Walzer on 7 Jun 2010 09:53
On 6/7/10 9:30 AM, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:

>
> Doesn't mdfind do things like that ?
>
> -Alex

Ah, mdfind--the CLI to Spotlight. Forgot about that.

mdfind has flaws that make it unsuitable for my purposes:

http://www.codebykevin.com/blosxom.cgi/2010/03/20#which-file-search

What I've wound up doing is writing a Tcl wrapper for the
FSCatalogSearch API:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/File_Manager/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/FSCatalogSearch

based on code here:

http://cocoacafe.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/fscatalogsearch/

--Kevin

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