Don't know if it's faster than your way or not, but I've used: find -type f -name "*thing_i_want" note you can use wildcards...
a. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Gerald Brandt <g...@majentis.com> wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > That's basically what I did, but I have a couple of BackupPC users that have > no clue about command line stuff, so I was hoping for a BackupPC web based > solution. > > Gerald > > > ________________________________ > > From: "Timothy J Massey" <tmas...@obscorp.com> > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:30:18 AM > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Search for File > > Gerald Brandt <g...@majentis.com> wrote on 09/28/2011 10:15:12 AM: > > > I need to search for a specific file on a host, via backuppc. Is > > there a way to search a host backup, so I don't have to manually go > > through all directories via the web interface? > > The easiest, most direct way of doing that would be: > > cd /path/to/host/pc/directory > find . | grep "f<filename>" > > I'm sure someone with more shell-fu will give you a much better command line > (and I look forward to learning something!). I'm sure there's a way to do it > simply with the find command alone, but I've had limited success trying to > limit the find command to find specific files. For me, it's easier to use > grep as above. My way will work, if a bit slowly: there's lots of files in > there... > > Don't forget the leading f in the filename: BackupPC puts an f in front of > every filename in the directory structure. > > Tim Massey > > Out of the Box Solutions, Inc. > Creative IT Solutions Made Simple! > http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com > tmas...@obscorp.com 22108 Harper Ave. > St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 > Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627) > Cell: (586)945-8796 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > -- "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randall Munroe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
