locate

NAME

plakar-locate — Find filenames in a Plakar snapshot

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The plakar locate command search snapshots to find file names matching any of the given patterns and prints the abbreviated snapshot ID and the full path of the matched files. Matching works according to the shell globbing rules.

If no -snapshot nor location flags are given, plakar locate will search in all snapshots.

In addition to the flags described below, plakar locate supports the location flags documented in plakar-query(7) to precisely select snapshots.

The options are as follows:

-snapshot snapshotID

Limit the search to the given snapshot.

EXAMPLES

Search for files ending in “wd”:

$ plakar locate '*wd'
abc123:/etc/master.passwd
abc123:/etc/passwd

DIAGNOSTICS

The plakar-locate utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

0

Command completed successfully.

>0

An error occurred, such as invalid parameters, inability to create the repository, or configuration issues.

SEE ALSO

plakar(1), plakar-backup(1), plakar-query(7)

CAVEATS

The patterns may have to be quoted to avoid the shell attempting to expand them.