How do you limit a Mac Finder search to only show .jar files?

Question

While trying to find specific .jar files using the Mac Finder, I cannot limit the search criteria (an option found by clicking the settings gear icon and then Show Search Criteria by Kind of .jar.

While trying setting Kind to Other and using .jar or *.jar, no results are returned for jar files that I know exist on my computer. I have tried the same for .tar as well.

Is there a way to limit a Finder search to specific jar files?

Answer 1

Almost, the literal kind of .jar files is Java JAR file

You can check the Spotlight attributes of a file yourself pretty simply.

• Open Terminal.app.
• Type mdls followed by a space character.
• Drag the file into the Terminal window.
• Press return.