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10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
Authored by: PatrickS on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 3:38PM PST

Try


mdfind 'kMDItemFSName == foo'

(or mdimport -X 2>&1 | less for a list of all search attributes).

locate is significantly faster though...

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10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
Authored by: baltwo on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 7:48PM PST

Super fast, since it only searches for patterns in paths.