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Say that I've lost a particular file. I know part of the name, so I could use something like this to find it:

sudo find / -iname "*filename*"

...except that I can't remember which device or server I left it on. It could be on any one of my external drives, or on servera.example.com, or serverb.example.com, or in one of GitHub repositories... you get the idea.

I could go searching every different place one by one, but that would take ages and I'm lazy.

Is there a way I search all my local devices and remote servers (and possibly my GitHub repositories too!) at once for a filename that I've lost?

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    On your machines: install locate, run updatedb, run locate to find the file. Use something like pssh to do it on all machines at once. On your external drives: connect as many as you can at the same time, run updatedb, save the database. Run locate when you indexed them all. On GitHub: you can probably get away with a search.
    – Satō Katsura
    Jul 1, 2016 at 9:43
  • @SatoKatsura Thanks for the advice. I was hoping for a (terminal based) tool that would do them all at once automatically for me, but I suppose this is the next best thing.
    – starbeamrainbowlabs
    Jul 1, 2016 at 17:56
  • There's also the good, old glimpse, if you're willing to do the extra work. There are, of course, ready-made "desktop search" solutions for KDE and the like.
    – Satō Katsura
    Jul 1, 2016 at 18:37

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