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SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OUTPUT FORMATS  Human  JSONl1  QUERY LANGUAGE  QUERY CACHING  OPTIONS  ENVIRONMENT  EXAMPLES  Get an item with a specific id from the repository  SEE ALSO 

SYNOPSIS

List snapshot contents.

bupstash list−contents [OPTIONS] QUERY...

DESCRIPTION

bupstash list−contents lists the contents of the item matching the given query.

Items created by using bupstash put on a directory will have an associated index, other items are not listable.

OUTPUT FORMATS

Human

When −−format is set to human, bupstash list−contents outputs aligned rows consisting of:

PERMS SIZE YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS PATH...

The included date is the time of the last change to a given file as reported by the operating system at the time of the snapshot.

Prefer using one of the versioned machine readable formats when writing scripts.

JSONl1

When −−format is set to jsonl1, bupstash list−contents outputs one json object per line.

Each line has the following json schema:

{
"path": string | [ bytes... ],
"mode": number,
"size": number,
"uid": number,
"gid": number,
"mtime": number,
"mtime_nsec": number,
"ctime": number,
"ctime_nsec": number,
"norm_dev": number,
"ino": number,
"nlink": number,
"link_target": string | null,
"dev_major": number | null,
"dev_minor": number | null,
"xattrs": {string : string | [bytes...] ...} | null,
"sparse": boolean,
"data_hash": "$KIND[:$HEXBYTE]" | null
}

QUERY LANGUAGE

For full documentation on the query language, see bupstash−query−language(7).

QUERY CACHING

The list−contents command uses the same query caching mechanisms as bupstash−list(1), check that page for more information on the query cache.

OPTIONS

−r, −−repository REPO

The repository to connect to, , may be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured. If not specified, is set to BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY.

−k, −−key KEY

Key used to decrypt data and metadata. If not set, defaults to BUPSTASH_KEY.

−−format FORMAT

Set output format to one of the following ’human’, ’jsonl’.

−−query−cache PATH

Path to the query−cache file, defaults to one of the following, in order, provided the appropriate environment variables are set, $BUPSTASH_QUERY_CACHE, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache or $HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache.

−−pick PATH

List a sub−directory of the query.

−−utc−timestamps

Display and search against timestamps in utc time instead of local time.

−q, −−quiet

Be quiet, implies −−no−progress.

ENVIRONMENT

BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY

The repository to connect to. May be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured.

BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY_COMMAND

A command to run to connect to an instance of bupstash−serve(1). This allows more complex connections to the repository for less common use cases.

BUPSTASH_KEY

Path to a primary key that will be used for decrypting data and metadata.

BUPSTASH_KEY_COMMAND

A command to run that must print the key data, can be used instead of BUPSTASH_KEY to fetch the key from arbitrary locations such as the network or other secret storage.

BUPSTASH_QUERY_CACHE

Path to the query cache file to use.

EXAMPLES

Get an item with a specific id from the repository

$ bupstash list−contents id="14eb*"
drwxr−xr−x 0 2020/10/30 13:32:04 .
−rw−r−−r−− 1967 2020/10/30 13:32:04 data.txt

SEE ALSO

bupstash(1), bupstash−put(1), bupstash−diff(1), bupstash−keyfiles(7), bupstash−query−language(7)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se