Mac – How to force Spotlight to index content inside a package

You can use the find command to show you the target of the symlink then have awk throw away the rest of the line. Then wrap that in a loop that tells you what it's doing then feeds the names to mdimport:

for linktarget in $(find ${HOME} -type l -ls | awk -F'-> ' '{print $NF}'); do
    echo "importing ${linktarget}"
    mdimport "${linktarget}"; 
done

It's probably easier to cut and paste this little script since there are some spaces that are easy to miss. (like the one after the arrow in the awk statement).

I often use Automator to make a stand alone "application" that calls a script or embedded app so that I can place it's icon in the location of my choosing.

There are plenty of other frameworks like Platypus that do similar things.

• http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus