NAME
File::Spotlight - List files from Smart Folder by reading .savedSearch files
SYNOPSIS
use File::Spotlight;
my $search = "$ENV{HOME}/Library/Saved Searches/New Smart Folder.savedSearch";
my $spotlight = File::Spotlight->new;
my @found = $spotlight->list($search);DESCRIPTION
File::Spotlight is a simple module to parse .savedSearch Smart Folder definition and get the result by executing the Spotlight query by mdfind command.
This is a low-level module to open and execute the saved search plist files. In your application you might better wrap or integrate this module with higher-level file system abstraction like IO::Dir, Path::Class::Dir or Filesys::Virtual.
METHODS
- new
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Creates a new File::Spotlight object.
- list
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@files = $spotlight->list($saved_search);Given the file path to .savedSearch (usually in
~/Library/Saved Searches/folder), executes the query and returns the list of files found in the smart folder.
AUTHOR
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.