[OS X TeX] Spotlight commands

Rene Borgella macmechanic at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 9 13:50:31 EST 2006


Hello everyone!

I've noticed several folks posting recently re. 
Spotlight and working with it.  In the interest 
of helping all of you work with Spotlight (or 
simply turn it off/on), I gleaned the following 
Spotlight commands from the application CLIX 
<rixstep.com>.

René



1) Index Publish -- publish indexes to drive

sudo mdutil -p /


2) Index Status -- show Spotlight index status

sudo mdutil -s /


3) Indexing Off -- turn Spotlight indexing off

sudo mdutil -i off /

4) Indexing On -- turn Spotlight indexing on

sudo mdutil -i on /

5) Remove Indexes -- remove Spotlight indexes

sudo mdutil -E /

6) Remove Store -- remove Spotlight store

sudo rm -fr /.Spotlight-V100


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