[X-Unix]from tcsh to bash

Dan Frakes lists at frakes.org
Wed May 18 11:26:09 PDT 2005


~flipper <lord.flipper at gmail.com> wrote

>even the Spotlight can't 'find' your /usr/bin directory.

You can easily tell Spotlight to include /usr/bin in searches if you prefer
such a configuration. But more importantly, why would the average user (not
a power user, but an average user) *want* the contents of /user/bin -- or
any other folder containing Unix executables or OS files -- to be included
in Spotlight searches? There are over 700 files in /usr/bin alone, few of
which most Mac users will ever care about and most of which contain a good
number of basic words that would likely get picked up by Spotlight searches.
For example, if Spotlight were to include /usr/bin by default, a user who
searches for "copyright" would end up with literally hundreds of unwanted
matches, making the results list pretty unmanageable.




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