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13.4. Exercise

Update the Searcher application so that it makes use of the Cocoa class NSTask, instead of the C function system. Make sure the Cocoa application's user interface remains responsive if the find command must search through many files. (Hint: The script should be allowed to run in the background. Do not call a blocking function, such as waitUntilExit.)

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