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David,
I have not needed to relocate a lost file name on my shellworld account in 
more than 25 years.
Meaning this is the first time ever,  and why I reached for a tool I felt 
added nothing whatsoever to the infrastructure here.
The problem has been solved in any case.
Kare



On Sun, 17 May 2026, David Wright wrote:

> On Sun 17 May 2026 at 23:45:18 (-0400), Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> David,
>> My personal circumstances have nothing to do with the nature of this task.
>
> I have no interest in your /personal/ circumstances.
>
>> dreamhost manages the shell accounts of my employer.
>
> Forgive me—I should have said use rather than purchase.
>
>> Including the workspaces, more than one of them I use for my jobs.
>> www.curtainupdistribution.org
>> www.commongroundmedia.ca
>> Shellworld hosts my personal website, as well as providing this account.
>
> Well at least I guessed that shellworld is the one involved here.
>
>> One rather intense reminder I get from the shellworld side is about
>> the use of space, files, configurations and so forth.
>> therefore,  as I literally cannot reach my office workspace, or check
>> my gmail account without the door shellworld provides i. e.openssh
>> stopped supporting direct dh keys that dreamhost allows years ago, i
>> personally choose to leave this infrastructure alone.
>
> That's why I included instruction on how to run the attachment
> I posted without having to put it into whatever shell configuration
> you have. The  bash -c  command first sources the saved attachment,
> and then it runs it with the three arguments, piping the potentially
> voluminous output into less.
>
>> Add that the situation  leading to my question is my first in over 25
>> years, and well.
>> Kare
>
> Sorry, I don't understand "situation", whether it's to do with your
> having to search for a file you created during a certain time
> interval, or whether it's to do with your shell account, about which
> I know the same as a few days ago, ie precious little.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

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