10.5: Get more from Spotlight with new operators
November 15th, 2007 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
In OS X 10.4, there were a few special operators you could use to narrow your results. For instance, kind:pdf or date:tomorrow were acceptable search terms. In 10.5, the number of such operators has been greatly expanded, though there’s little to no documentation on what’s available.
Early on, I stumbled on the filename: syntax, which lets you quickly find by filename (use filename:”file name in quotes” for filenames with spaces in them). Macworld author Kirk McElhearn was intrigued by Spotlight’s new powers, and started digging. What he discovered are some new ways to use the existing operators, as well as a slew of new operators. You can read his Spotlight’s Secret Search Syntax article for all the details, but I’ll hit a few highlights here.
For example, you can…
