Mon 25 Nov 2024 09:16:45 CET

Author: James Stone TIL sync bot

sh/finding-sqlite-dbs.md

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+# Find sqlite dbs
+
+Lots of applications use sqlite dbs. It can be useful to try and find them all. For this you can use the following command
+
+```
+find . -type f -exec sh -c 'head -c 16 "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^SQLite format" && echo "$1"' _ {} \;
+```
+
+as all sqlite files start with the header string: "SQLite format 3\000" , see: [Database File Format](https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html)