Quick Recipes

Copy-paste ready command snippets for common tasks

How to Use

Simply copy the command and paste it into your terminal. Modify the parameters as needed for your specific use case.

Search Recipes

Find all PDFs modified this month

filefortress search "*.pdf" --modified-after "1 month ago"

Search photos by camera model

filefortress search "*.jpg" --meta "exif.cameraMake=Canon"

Find large files across all remotes

filefortress search "*" --size-min 100MB

Search for documents containing specific text

filefortress search "invoice" --type document

Find files in a specific remote

filefortress search "report" --remote "my-drive"

Remote Management Recipes

List all connected remotes

filefortress remotes list

Add a new remote interactively

filefortress remotes add

Scan a specific remote

filefortress remotes scan --remote "my-drive"

Scan all remotes

filefortress remotes scan --all

View remote details

filefortress remotes info --remote "my-drive"

File Browsing Recipes

List files in a specific folder

filefortress ls "/Documents/Projects"

Browse files interactively

filefortress ls

List files sorted by size

filefortress ls --sort size --descending

List only folders

filefortress ls --folders-only

Maintenance Recipes

Update CLI to latest version

filefortress update

Submit feedback

filefortress feedback

Check device information

filefortress device info

Advanced Recipes

Find duplicate files by hash

filefortress find --group-by hash --having "count > 1"

Search with multiple metadata filters

filefortress search "*.jpg" --meta "exif.width>=1920" --meta "exif.height>=1080"

Export search results to JSON

filefortress search "*.pdf" --output json > results.json

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