ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

[Yves COPPE]

Le 21-août-05 à 19:53, Andre Garzia a écrit :

> Folks,
>
> Since I started using MacOS X Tiger, I became very fond of  
> Spotlight since it reminds me of BFS.
>
> Spotlight has support for very advanced queries using nested  
> boolean logic and cool metadata filters but those features are not  
> exposed in the normal spotlight ui. To access those functions you  
> need to code your query using Objective-C or use command line tools.
>
> By the use of shell() command we can harvest most of the spotlight  
> power by calling commandline tools, the spotlight command line  
> tools start with md (from metadata).


Hi Andre,


I have a little problem with your function.

In Mac OS X French you have accent, umlaut, cedilla,...

so my script :

  put mdfind(tSearch) into tmp
gives unreadable result

so I've tried :

  put urldecode(tmp) into tmp

  put isotomac(tmp) into tmp


but it stays unreadable


when you ask for the detailed fiiles and urldecode the result, then  
are the lines readable.


How can I perform that ?

Thank you


Greetings.

Yves COPPE
yvescoppe at skynet.be