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08/26/11
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in spotlight (finder or mail) searches? or safari page content searches? is it possible?
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Re: regular expressions in mac os searches?
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Hal Itosis
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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.]
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Re: regular expressions in mac os searches?
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