---
name: "searchcon"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "setools"
version: "2.4-3"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/searchcon"
---

# searchcon(1)

SELinux file context search tool for indexes

## NAME

searchcon - SELinux file context search tool for indexes

## SYNOPSIS

**searchcon** \<index file\> \[OPTIONS\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page describes the **searchcon** command.

**searchcon** allows the user to search file context indexes created by the **indexcon** command.

## OPTIONS

- \-t type, --type=typename

  The name of the type to search for

- \-u user, --user=username

  The name of the user to search for

- \-m range, --mls-range=range

  MLS range to search for

- \-p path, --path=pathname

  The path or path fragment to search for

- \-o object, --object=class

  The name of the object class to search for

- \-r, --regex

  Search using regular expressions

- \-l, --list

  List types in the snapshot

- \-h, --help

  Display help information and exit

- \-v, --version

  Display version information and exit

## INFORMATION

Valid object classes are

file, dir, lnk\_file, chr\_file, blk\_file, sock\_file, fifo\_file, all\_files

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Kevin Carr \<kcarr@tresys.com\>.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright(C) 2006 Tresys Technology, LLC

## SEE ALSO

[findcon(1)](/findcon/1.md), [replcon(1)](/replcon/1.md), [searchcon(1)](/searchcon/1.md), [indexcon(1)](/indexcon/1.md)