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 speci-
       fied 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 match-
       ing.

       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 configura-
              tion file.

       220-254
              An error was detected in the configuration.

       255    Incorrect usage.

FILES

              dirvish index file.

SEE ALSO

       dirvish.conf(5)

BUGS

                                                             DIRVISH-LOCATE(8)