DIRVISH-LOCATE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 DIRVISH-LOCATE(1)

NAME

       dirvish-locate - locate file versions in dirvish images

SYNOPSIS

       dirvish-locate vault[:branch] pattern

DESCRIPTION

       Locate versions of files in a dirvish vault

       The index of each image specified vault is searched for paths matching pattern.	Each path found matching the pattern will be reported fol-
       lowed by a modification time of each version of the file and all images having a link to it.

       The optional branch specification will restrict searching to the specified branch.

       Images with an error status will be skipped as will any without index files.  The index file may be compressed by gzip or bzip2.  See  tree
       and index in dirvish.conf(5) for details.

       The  pattern  is  a  perl regular expression to match the final component of the path.  Append .*  to the end of the pattern if you wish to
       match any substring of the whole path or $ if you wish to anchor the pattern to the end of the path.  See perlre(1) for details.

       Directories are excluded from matching as they would wind up matching every file within them  anyway.   Symlinks  are  also  excluded  from
       matching.

       If  the pattern matches too many paths dirvish-locate will only report the paths matched and not versions.  As a sanity check if the number
       of matches is really excessive dirvish-locate will limit the number of images searched.	Excessive matches is an indication of an  insuffi-
       ciently specific pattern.  Use the resulting path list to compose a more specific one.

EXIT CODES

       To  facilitate  further automation and integration of dirvish-locate with other tools dirvish-locate provides rationalised exit codes.  The
       exit codes are range based.  While the code for a specific error may change from one version to another it will remain within the specified
       range.	So don't test for specific exit codes but instead test for a range of values.  To the degree possible higher value ranges indicate
       more severe errors.

       0      success 200-219 An error was encountered in loading a configuration file.

       220-254
	      An error was detected in the configuration.

       255    Incorrect usage.

FILES

       /etc/dirvish/master.conf
	      alternate master configuration file.

       /etc/dirvish.conf
	      master configuration file.

       bank/vault/image/summary
	      image creation summary.

       bank/vault/image/index

       bank/vault/image/index.gz

       bank/vault/image/index.bz2
	      dirvish index file.

SEE ALSO

       dirvish.conf(5)

BUGS

																 DIRVISH-LOCATE(1)