[X4U] Spotlight - Searching For An Exact String

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jul 11, 2005, at 7:09 PM, revDAVE wrote:

> I am curious, I am not sure whether spotlight or the new tiger find  
> command
> are capable of doing the following: searching for an Exact String  
> inside of
> a content search... Such issue would use @ Google when you enclose  
> a phrase
> in quotes...
>
> ... So, if I search for Woody Allen -  I might find it a text  
> document with
> the word Woody and then elsewhere in the document the name  
> Allen ... -  but
> not necessarily the ACTOR director Woody Allen...
>
> ... But if I search for "Woody Allen" in quotes ... I would expect  
> to find
> the exact  name of the ACTOR/director...
>
> So - I am wondering if we can get either spot light or the apple find
> command in Tiger to perform the same way with content searches.

When you search for a string in quotes in Spotlight, it only looks in  
file names...


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