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Re: How to find a deleted file amongst many archives

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Subject: Re: How to find a deleted file amongst many archives
From: Quinn Comendant <quinn@strangecode.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:19:22 -0500
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:01:18 -0500, Quinn Comendant wrote:
> Is there a way to search all archives to find "the most recent file that 
> exist(s|ed) at the specified path"?

Just to avoid anyone giving the obvious answer: I suppose I can always wrap `while` loops around `tarsnap --list-archives` and `tarsnap -t -f $ARCHIVENAME` with a combination of `grep $FILENAME` and `tail -1`.

Is that the best strategy, or is there a built-in command that does this more elegantly (there don't appear to be)? 

Quinn

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