This article is part of the “Meta Advent 2019” series. I’ve committed to writing a new blog post here every day until Christmas. macOS’s Spotlight is an extremely powerful and fast search tool. Its speed is derived from the fact that internally Spotlight relies on a pre-built file database (similar to what the Unix utility locate does). While for most people using Spotlight’s GUI interface is probably fine, people like me prefer to be able to leverage it from their terminals. Fortunately, that’s...

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