PLAKAR-LOCATE(1)

💅 plakar-locate(1) — the General Commands Manual girlies

okay so bestie, welcome to PLAKAR-LOCATE(1) — it's a General Commands Manual entry and it's literally about finding your files inside Plakar snapshots. no cap, this one's a little baddie. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

plakar-locate — find filenames in a Plakar snapshot 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plakar locate [-snapshot snapshotID] patterns ...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so plakar locate goes digging through your snapshots to find file names matching any of the patterns you hand it, and then it prints the abbreviated snapshot ID plus the full path of every matched file. slay. matching works according to the shell globbing rules, iykyk. 🌸

and listen — if you don't give it a -snapshot and you don't give it any location flags, plakar locate will just go ahead and search all snapshots. main character energy, honestly. searching everything. 👑

oh and also, on top of the flags described down below, plakar locate supports the location flags documented in plakar-query(7) so you can precisely select which snapshots you want. precision, periodt. 💅

the options are as follows:

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -snapshot snapshotID — limits the search to the given snapshot. just that one. no wandering. 🎯

✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

the plakar-locate utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. simple as that, bestie. ✨

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

searching for files ending in “wd”:

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

look at her go 😭💖

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

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

✨ CAVEATS ✨

ngl the patterns may have to be quoted to avoid the shell attempting to expand them. so like, quote them. please. for me. 🙈 your shell is very eager and will absolutely try to help in a way you did not ask for.

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that's the whole vibe 🫶 this page is from Debian, dated May 5, 2026 — and that's the tea. 💜⭐