Force Spotlight to index a hidden directory
Microsoft pwsh
stores its artifacts (scripts and modules) in the ~/.local/share/powershell
.
I've noticed that Spotlight doesn't index the content of this folder.
Is there a way to get Spotlight to index selected, hidden directories?
** edit **
I have a symlink on my desktop to the powershell
directory:
$ ls -al ~/Desktop
...
lrwxr-xr-x 1 me staff 36 Sep 24 08:52 powershell -> /Users/me/.local/share/powershell
This does not appear to have any effect on the indexing.
Solution 1:
Spotlight doesn't index dot files or folders. A workaround is to rename the folder and then symlink it back to its original name:
mv ~/.local/share/powershell ~/powershell && ln -s ~/powershell ~/.local/share/powershell
Make sure the destination of the move doesn't already exist.