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How to search for a file?

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the occ backup:file:search command entry point and reproduce the four command forms shown in the issue against the available full and differential restore points. Done means determining the correct path syntax or confirming and documenting a reproducible failure with the command output.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

I use the commands
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/occ backup:file:search <my_account>/files/<path>/<filename>
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/occ backup:file:search <my_account>/<path>/<filename>
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/occ backup:file:search <path>/<filename>
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/occ backup:file:search <filename>

The answer always is "no result" from all restoring points, full and differential.
Have I used the commands correctly?
Thanks!

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