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Tobias Weber

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:24 pm
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Gregory Weston1

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:24 pm
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Tobias Weber wrote:

> Hi,
> the only way Google found to interact with Spotlight is UI scripting
> Finder. Honestly? My script needs a list of file satisfying some
> conditions to work on.

Use AppleScript's 'do shell script' command to run mdfind.

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