git-annex-...entlocation(1)

💖 git-annex-contentlocation — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this page is from the git-annex manual, and it's literally just about asking "where does this key's stuff actually live on disk?" 🦋 buckle up, it's a short one but it ATE.

✨ NAME ✨

git-annex-contentlocation — looks up content for a key 🔍

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git annex contentlocation [key ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

ngl bestie, this is a plumbing-level command, which is the fancy way of saying it's the low-level machinery that other stuff calls, not the cute porcelain you'd normally type. 🛠️

What it does: it looks up the filename that's used to store the content of a key. That filename gets printed out to stdout. periodt.

But here's the plot twist 😭 — if the key's content is not present in the local repository, then nothing is output at all, and it exits nonzero. it's giving "i have nothing to say and i'm leaving." 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --batch — turns on batch mode 🎀 in this mode, a line containing the key gets read from stdin, the filename for its content gets output to stdout (with a trailing newline), and then it just... repeats. over and over. iconic behavior honestly.

heads up babes: if a key's content is not present, then instead of the filename you get an empty line output to stdout instead. so like, empty line = no content, don't be confused 💅

Also, the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used too. yes queen, the usual suspects apply ✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• git-annex(1) — the main character, go read her 🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> — the legend, the moment, the blueprint 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, no filler, no cap 💜 and just so you know this whole thing is the git-annex-...entlocation(1) page from the General Commands Manual — that's the title you'd see up in the corner and down in the footer too, so now you have it 🌸 go forth and locate some content, you got this ⭐