Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Check out Searching For Files In Two Or More Folders At the Same Time On Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. To uninstall go on MacOS, do this: On the terminal type which go it will. Chgrp Change group ownership chmod Change access permissions chown Change file owner and group chroot Run a command with a different root directory cksum Print CRC checksum and byte counts clear Clear terminal screen cmp Compare two files comm Compare two sorted files line by lineIt can help you remove files, folders and registry keys of DuckDuckGo. Cd Change Directory chflags Change a file or folders flags.MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters. To search a folder for sub-folders, use the following command Syntax. Dir arrow.jpg /s Search for folders. If you want to narrow the search down by file type, enter the file extension after the period.
![]() ![]() Search For Files And Directories Osx Terminal Mac At YouTubeI'm going to create a new folder called Special Searches. So instead I'm going to go to my Documents folder here. I want to click Save here and it will create a saved search, also known as a Smart Folder, and it will do it in the Saved Searches location which is actually in my Library folder.I don't want to put it there because I want to work with this special file. So the first thing I want to do is Save the Search. ![]() It's perfectly readable containing all the criteria for that search. This is what's actually in that file.It's a text file. I'm going to drag and drop the saved search special file there and open it up in TextEdit. I'm going to use Spotlight to search for TextEdit and run TextEdit. So I'm going to run TextEdit. Download stories by neelesh mishraBut before we do that notice that in addition to SearchScopes there's also CurrentFolderPath and there's an array in there with the same path. So you would think we could add a second path there. So we have a list of one thing, one path. Then here if we look at SearchScopes we could see the path inside an array, an array means a list of things. So let's create a new line here and I will format it the same way. But I think it's a little cleaner if I add it in all three places. So it's there in three places.Now some experimentation shows that I could actually add a second path here to this FXScopeArrayOfPaths and it will work. So I'll Copy it and I'll move here and I'll hit Return. Then I will close the little tag there like that.Now let's add that in the other two places. Now that second folder was actually in Project B slash and the name of it was actually Notes and Such. So let's go and add that so now it matches the same format but this time it's looking in Documents Project B Notes and Such instead of Some Files.So now I've added it in those three places. System/Volumes/Data and then slash Users. So I'll Paste it in but notice that it goes to the top level. Also, I'm going to do the same thing here but the format is a little different. So now we have the second path added under Current Folder Path. So I'm going to Exit out of this to make sure I'm not in there. So what's going on here? Well, we need to restart the Finder. If I double click you can see I still see the same results. Now I've saved it there so if I double click on this it should show me the result of the search for Notes in both of those locations. All my Finder windows will close and reopen. You could see there's Relaunch. I could also hold the Option key down and click on the Finder down here. I can do it by force quitting the Finder. I could do it in the Terminal. This one is from Some Files. I could see this is from Notes and Such. As a matter of fact if I click here and I look at the bottom I could see the path bar. Now I can double click on this and the results are going to be all the files with notes in the name from both folders. So now if I look here I could see some of these are in Some Files and others are in Notes and Such. So in addition to Notes another word that I used was things. But I could change the criteria here at the top. You can see now it says Search This Mac and then it just gives me the name of the search here at the top. I can click here and go to Show Search Criteria. So it is actually showing me the results from both of those locations.I can even modify this now that I've created it. You can also do this in the Terminal as well. Of course if you want to clutter your Mac with more third party apps you can get search apps that will do more. I can return, say, to the Documents level here and click in the Sidebar and get the results for the saved search.So this isn't the most convenient way to do this. I'm not sure why the difference. If you go to look in the Text file sometimes you'll see the path is only in two places now instead of one. I can't really change the actual locations without opening it up again in TextEdit.If I go to Exit here it's going to ask me to Save the Smart Folder. Plus you also get some insight as to how saved searches work and perhaps you can play around with more of the details inside of the text of the saved search file.
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