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 make
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" --media-type documents
Find files in a specific remote
filefortress search "report" --remote "my-drive"
Search with natural language (AI)
filefortress ai "large photos from google drive last year" --explain
Add --explain to see how your query is interpreted before the search runs. Requires a configured AI provider.
Remote Management Recipes
List all connected remotes
filefortress remotes list
Add a new remote
filefortress remotes add local
Pick the subcommand for your provider (e.g. local, s3, gdrive, onedrive, backblaze). Or run filefortress setup for the guided interactive flow.
Scan a specific remote
filefortress remotes scan my-drive
Scan all remotes
filefortress remotes scan --all
Scans all configured remotes sequentially.
View remote details
filefortress remotes info my-drive
Enrich files using the provider API
filefortress remotes enrich --remote my-drive
Fetches extra metadata from the cloud provider's API without downloading the files.
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 --reverse
List only folders
filefortress ls --folders-only
Maintenance Recipes
Update CLI to latest version
filefortress update
Submit feedback
filefortress feedback create --title "Great tool" --content "Loving the search feature"
Check device information
filefortress device info
Advanced Recipes
Find duplicate files by hash
filefortress find duplicates --hash-verified-only
Search with multiple metadata filters
filefortress search "*.jpg" --meta "image.width>=1920" --meta "image.height>=1080"
Export search results to JSON
filefortress search "*.pdf" --view json --save-to-file results.json
List all duplicate files
filefortress find duplicates
Preview removing duplicates (safe — deletes nothing)
filefortress duplicates remove --keep-strategy oldest
Enrich files with local tools
filefortress tools run --media-type images
Downloads matching files and runs local tools (such as exiftool and ffmpeg) to extract richer metadata.
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