I’m afraid I don’t understand the operator not / - even with the help of the manual.
This finds all PDF documents that contain “cat” and “dog”.
How should I search if I only want to find “cat” and “dog” that do not appear in PDF documents? Unfortunately this does not work. Thanks.
You should use “kind:!pdf”
You’re right, thank you. Apart from the fact that it was in the wrong place ! and - are not the same thing?
The not operator work on the value, not on the attribute.
-kind: something would mean (loosely) „any attribute that’s not kind with a value of something. Eg, tag: something. But the syntax doesn’t exist.
Manual p 231
Is it wrong to conclude that ! and - are equivalent?
I think that the not operator’s alternative version is ~ (tilde). Can’t check now as I’m away from my Mac. In DTTG, It seems to be only not.
My understanding is that “normal” search operators cannot be applied to search prefixes. The search prefixes have their own prefix operators.