ecryptfs-find(1)

ecryptfs-find1

Use inode numbers to match encrypted/decrypted filenames

Usage

ecryptfs-find cleartext-filename ecryptfs-find ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.fwBGx18a.UcYl18CF7VKLMSDuEadV

Overview

This program will attempt to match encrypted filenames to their decrypted counterpart, and attempt to match decrypted filenames to their encrypted counterpart.

Notes:
- the eCryptfs filesystem must be mounted in order to work
- it uses ls(1) in order to determine the inode
- it uses find(1) in order to locate the inode

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Author

This manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

From ecryptfs-utils 111-9 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.