[Borgbackup] Multi-archive searches in Borg Backup?

[Thomas Gries]

tl,dr
Have you ever thought about implementing a native

  * "borg lookup for files in all archives of a repo" command?


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Long version:

I wanted to look up for files, generally matching a regular expression,
in any(all) archives of a repo.

I found this older post:

"Multi-archive searches in Borg Backup?"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/borgbackup/2016q3/000402.html

which mentions three possibilities

FUSE mounted repositories have a "versions view" where all versions of
a file are available:
- borg mount

- borg-diff and
- borg-list

are the two other possibilities, but these are treating only two
respectively one archive of a repo.

Because as Thomas says  "that fuse support is not present /
unproblematic on all platforms.", the "borg mount" may not a generally
available method:
I bring up the question therefore:
Have you ever thought about implementing a native "borg lookup for files
in all archives of a repo" command?
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