[X4U] Using Apple's Find (Command F)

[Daly Jessup]

At 1:35 PM -0700 3/9/06, John Baltutis wrote:
>Quick tutorial. All of Spotlight's arcane stuff is stored in the hidden,
>root-level directory /.Spotlight V100. To view its contents, use the
>Terminal.app command ls, preceeding it with sudo:
>
>sudo ls -al /.Spotlight-V100/   ---->
>.journalHistoryLog
>.store.db
>ContentIndex.db
>Store-V1 (which contains a ton of indexes)
>_IndexPolicy.plist
>_rules.plist
>store.db
>
>Use the cp command to back it up (so you can replace it if you screw it up),
>copy it to your desktop, open it in TextEdit, add the new parts, save it, and
>cp it back, replacing the original.

Thank you so much. Coincidentally, I have been studying a basic Unix 
tutorial this afternoon so that was less confusing than it might have 
been  an hour ago!

Still, I see the listing as you show above. When I type:
sudo cp _rules.plist rules2.plist
in an effor to back it up (then move it to the Desktop later) it 
tells me "No such file or directory".
My tutorial hasn't taken me yet to knowing what the underline before 
its name means.

Can you explain what I am doing wrong in my effort to copy the file?

Sorry to be a pain here.

Daly
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