git-annex-whereis - Man Page

git annex whereis [path ...]

Displays information about where the contents of files are located.

For example:

# git annex whereis
whereis my_cool_big_file (1 copy)
0c443de8-e644-11df-acbf-f7cd7ca6210d  -- laptop
whereis other_file (3 copies)
0c443de8-e644-11df-acbf-f7cd7ca6210d  -- laptop
62b39bbe-4149-11e0-af01-bb89245a1e61  -- usb drive [here]
7570b02e-15e9-11e0-adf0-9f3f94cb2eaa  -- backup drive

Note that this command does not contact remotes to verify if they still have the content of files. It only reports on the last information that was received from remotes.

matching options

The git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to control what to act on.

--key=keyname

Show where a particular git-annex key is located.

--all -A

Show whereis information for all known keys.

(Except for keys that have been marked as dead, see git-annex-dead(1).)

--branch=ref

Show whereis information for files in the specified branch or treeish.

--unused

Show whereis information for files found by last run of git-annex unused.

--batch

Enables batch mode, in which a file is read in a line from stdin, its information displayed, and repeat.

Note that if the file is not an annexed file, or does not match specified matching options, an empty line will be output instead.

--batch-keys

This is like --batch but the lines read from stdin are parsed as keys.

-z

Makes batch input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual newlines.

--json

Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.

--json-error-messages

Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in the JSON instead.

--format=value

Use custom output formatting.

The value is a format string, in which '${var}' is expanded to the value of a variable. To right-justify a variable with whitespace, use '${var;width}' ; to left-justify a variable, use '${var;-width}'; to escape unusual characters (including control characters) in a variable, use '${escaped_var}'

These variables are available for use in formats: file, key, uuid, url, backend, bytesize, humansize, keyname, hashdirlower, hashdirmixed, mtime (for the mtime field of a WORM key).

Also, '\n' is a newline, '\000' is a NULL, etc.

When the format contains the uuid variable, it will be expanded in turn for each repository that contains the file content. For example, with --format="${file} ${uuid}\n", output will look like:

foo 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001
foo a7f7ddd0-9a08-11ea-ab66-8358e4209d30
bar a7f7ddd0-9a08-11ea-ab66-8358e4209d30

The same applies when the url variable is used and a file has multiple recorded urls.

Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.

git-annex(1)

git-annex-find(1)

git-annex-list(1)

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

git-annex(1), git-annex-find(1), git-annex-list(1).