[Info-vax] Web Browsers on OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

In article <21j9yKL$AqQT at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <nospam-A0CB67.16481023122012 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture 
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> > 
> > The OS X GUI has sufficient knobs and dials that you don't need to go 
> > near the command line if you don't want to.
> 
>    What is the GUI equivalent of:
> 
>       find . -name "*.c??" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -A3 mumble
> 
>    ?
> 
>    The GUI's search capabilities don't seem to match the function of
>    showing me the matching text, nor the 3 lines after.

Foul play! :-)

I wrote the comment above with novices to the *nix world in mind.

But Spotlight, the search function in Finder, and Smart Folders can be 
very useful.

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1929167&seqNum=6

http://lifehacker.com/5900893/all-the-awesome-spotlight-shortcuts-you-did
nt-know-existed

PDF: http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/spotlight_cmds.pdf

and plenty of other resources

You might also want to have a look at the NotLight utility (free), if 
only for the help file.  I found this especially useful with older 
versions of OS X; with Tiger, Spotlight had the frustrating habit of 
showing the file I was looking for then dropping it from the results 
before I could click on it.

As I have just discovered, you can also incorporate raw mdfind queries 
into Spotlight searches:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2012/07/25/advanced-spotlight-queries-in-the-ma
c-gui/

-- 
Paul Sture