MDFinder(1)

✨ MDFinder(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

Okay bestie, let's get into MDFinder, the GNUstep Finder application 💖 It's basically the search app for the GWMetadata desktop search and indexing system. Your files are sus-levels of organized if you don't have it set up, so let's make it slay 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

MDFinder — GNUstep Finder application 🎀

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

MDFinder

Literally just type MDFinder and you're in. No extra fluff needed 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This manual page is giving a quick intro to the MDFinder GNUstep application 🦋

Okay so MDFinder is an app for searching items that have already been indexed by the GWMetadata desktop search and indexing system. It's a GNUstep version of MacOS X's proprietary Spotlight, and it's also kinda like Beagle or Tracker 🔥 Your saved searches are lowkey amazing because they update automatically if the files they point to change ✨

Indexing happens in the background and it's switched off by default 🙈 To turn it on and set up the search path, use the dedicated module in the SystemPreferences(1) application. Trust me, it's worth it 🫶

There are a few accompanying programs that you normally won't need to run yourself. Some of them are daemons that get launched automatically, so you don't have to babysit them 🌈 Here's the tea:

👑 gmds 👑

This daemon keeps the indexing database running. It lives at $HOME/GNUstep/Library/gmds 💖

🦋 mdextractor 🦋

This one runs in the background (only if indexing is turned on) and pulls out file contents, then updates the database ✨

🎀 mdfind 🎀

See mdfind(1). Go check it out 🧚

🍓 OPTIONS 🍓

Honestly? MDFinder is not a command-line diva. It doesn't support any command-line options, except the standard GNUstep ones 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mdfind(1)
• SystemPreferences(1)
• GWorkspace(1)
• GNUstep(7)

💫 AUTHORS 💫

MDFinder and GWMetadata were written by Enrico Sersale, iconic 👑

This manual page was added by Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org> for the Debian distribution, because the original program didn't have one 🫶

🔒 COPYRIGHT 🔒

Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 💜

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty, provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. No cap, that's the vibe 🦋

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Lowkey obsessed with this app, bestie. It's from June 19, 2014, and it's been living its best life through MDFinder(1) ever since 💖✨🌸