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marvin*1*2

macrumors member
Original poster
I'm trying to find files in my home-dir which contain e.g. the string 'energy conversion'

when I type this is in spotlight, it gives me all files that contain 'energy' or 'conversion'.

when I try using quotes (') it does the same.

when I try using dblquotes (") it finds nothing.

AND/OR, && /|| seems to do nothing useful either.

basically, I'm looking for an equivalent for this:
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -il 'energy conversion'
 
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