Mdfind exclude folder

Question

-onlyin

in mdfind looking for a specific folder.
How can I exclude certain folders when combined with -onlyin?

Thus, if I want to search the entire SearchHere folder containing folders A, B and C and exclude from the search in C.

+3

pal4life 14 oct. 14 at 17:06

1 answer

l'l'l · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-14T21:11:21+0000

You can use something like:

mdfind -onlyin SearchHere 'kMDItemFSName==ItemToSearch' | grep -v '/C/'

mdfind

seems to be ignoring kMDItemPath

, so using grep -v

should fix the problem.