3Restart your server.

To enable Spotlight on your server:

1Open /etc/hostconfig for editing as root.

2Change the value of the spotlight parameter to -YES-.

You can also set the value of the SPOTLIGHT parameter to -YES-as follows:

$ sudo /System/Library/ServerSetup/serversetup -setAutoStartSpotlight 1

3Restart your server.

Performing Spotlight Searches

Mac OS X provides the ability to view the metadata of a file and perform Spotlight searches from the command line.

To view a file’s Spotlight metadata, use the mdls tool. This tool, which is similar to the ls tool, lists all of the metadata attributes for a specific file.

To view the metadata of a file:

$ mdls filename

The computer will respond with something similar to the following output:

<filename> -------------

 

 

kMDItemAttributeChangeDate =

1970-01-01 00:43:07 -0600

kMDItemFSContentChangeDate =

2005-10-03 22:04:19 -0500

kMDItemFSCreationDate

=

2005-10-03 22:04:19 -0500

kMDItemFSCreatorCode

=

0

kMDItemFSFinderFlags

=

16384

kMDItemFSInvisible

=

1

kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden =

0

kMDItemFSLabel

=

0

kMDItemFSName

=

"filename"

kMDItemFSNodeCount

=

0

kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID

=

0

kMDItemFSOwnerUserID

=

0

kMDItemFSSize

=

4330232

kMDItemFSTypeCode

=

0

kMDItemID

=

634516

kMDItemLastUsedDate

=

2005-10-03 21:04:19 -0500

kMDItemUsedDates

=

(2005-10-03 21:04:19 -0500)

To perform a Spotlight search, use the mdfind tool:

$ mdfind “kMDItemAcquisitionModel ==’Canon Powershot S45’” /Users/anne/Documents/vacation1.jpg /Users/anne/Documents/vacation2.jpg /Users/anne/Documents/vacation3.jpg /Users/anne/Documents/vacation4.jpg

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