Re: dar_manager enhancement?

Thanks, Denis, most helpful as always. I'll try your suggestions the next
time such a lost file problem crops up.

Cheers,

Richard.

On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 20:08, Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17/04/2021 13:14, Richard Gray wrote:
> > Hi Denis,
>
> Hey Richard,
>
> >
> > Firstly, I should note that this is not a priority request, but it's a
> > feature that I would find useful from time to time.
> >
> > There are occasions when I, or a another user, deletes a file, or
> > perhaps a directory, which needs to be recovered later on. I have used
> > the dar_manager -f directive to find the missing data, but this is of
> > little use when the *exact* path and/or filename is not known. My
> > question is: is there a way of searching the catalogue using, say, a
> > regular expression? Could such a feature be added, or maybe there is a
> > way of doing this already that I'm unaware of?
>
> You can use all filtering features (-P, -g, -X, -I, ...) which can each
> receive a glob expression or if preceded by -ar a regular expression
> with the listing operation of dar:
>
> dar -l backup -I "*.txt"
> dar -l backup -ar -I '.*\.txt$'
>
> For dar_manager you are correct, there is no such way to search the
> database, your idea is interesting and I add it to todo list.
>
> In the meanwhile, you can still list the whole database content to a
> file and apply egrep/grep to it with regular expression.
>
> dar_manager -B base.dmd -u 0 > listing.txt
> egrep "regex" listing.txt
>
> >
> > Many thanks in anticipation,
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> >
>
> Cheers,
> Denis
>
>