are there any commands to search your Mac using terminal? I tried usin grep to search but it seems somewhat unresponsive and nothing comes up.
For example, I would type "grep Files" (A folder name) and it just prints a blank line and nothing happens.
Best Answer
You can also use the
mdfind
command in order to perform a search with Spotlight. More info here.Use
mdfind -name searchterm
in order to retrieve files with the namesearchterm
. Usemdfind searchterm
to perform a search on file name and content.