Every Monday, we'll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple's built-in command line application. You don't need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these. All you need is a keyboard to type 'em out!
In a previous Terminal 101, we showed you how to use the Find command to search for items and certain file types on your Mac, but the results are anything but easy to read. The power of Spotlight’s search is the ability to search through metadata in files, and that functionality can be duplicated in Terminal with the mdfind command. The “md” stands for metadata because this tool can search through the files and pick out the metadata based on pre-defiend keywords.
