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regular expressions in mac os searches? #17230 08/26/11 06:41 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Iowa Virtual1 OP
OP Virtual1 Joined: Aug 2009 Iowa	in spotlight (finder or mail) searches? or safari page content searches? is it possible? I work for the Department of Redundancy Department

Re: regular expressions in mac os searches? Virtual1 #17402 09/14/11 12:13 AM
Joined: Sep 2009 10.6.8 (build 10K549) Hal Itosis
Hal Itosis Joined: Sep 2009 10.6.8 (build 10K549)	Originally Posted By: Virtual1 in spotlight (finder or mail) searches? or safari page content searches? is it possible? You're dreaming (but i couldn't agree more). Forget about BRE (and/or ERE), we can't even use simple wildcards like '*' or '?' Edit: this is Apple's page about Spotlight's "Query Expression Syntax" [guess they figure geeks prefer the CLI over the GUI anyway, but i side with you on this one.] Last edited by Hal Itosis; 09/14/11 12:25 AM.

Re: regular expressions in mac os searches? Hal Itosis #17406 09/14/11 12:56 AM
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