Is there any linux application or utility that will catalog the contents of filesystem on drives, thumb/key drives, media cards, CD, DVD and BluRay media? ASIDE -- I can't believe that something like this doesn't already exist, but I can't find one.

All I want is a catalog of file, path, filesystem, device, details....

I am not interested in a catalog of images (resolution, date/time, camera settings, etc) or music (genre, artist, album, duration, etc) or movie(title, studio, IMDB, etc).

I'm looking for something that will scan a file system, record the filename and path of what is there, remember which filesystem (and other details) it came from, and store these per filename details into an open database.

I should then be able to ask the database "find {filename}" and see a display of the details along with the filesystem where that {filename} exists.

I say open database to mean that the storage is available for me to access with my own tools to analyze the database contents. This is important since any app or utility might be better if I can extend it to meet my exact needs.

Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Does

ls -d -l $PWD/**/* > fileinfo.txt

give you what you're looking for?

Armed with a pile of these lists, I could grep for my desired filename and the name of the list tells me
which filesystem holds the file.

From a scripting perspective, this would be a likely start -- that or:
After all, that is most of the information available about a single file. The other useful details would likely include the MD5SUM of the file.

The find command might be preferred because I could control the output format in greater detail.

I hope that I don't need to invent something and can simply install something that already exists.
If not, this might be my summer project.

Thanks, again,
~~~ 0;-Dan

There are a few desktop search engines in addition to locate but they do not appear to meet your specific requirements. At the moment I have not found anything (which does not mean much) so it looks like you have your summer project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...search_engines

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I use to get a list of all files/directories. It doesn't include any filesystem info though.

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