I lost a password in my Keypass database and was looking for a way to search the lost password in all my backups easily and fast

find-keypass-entry.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo -n "please enter the password for the keypass database:"
read -rs pw
echo

KEYPASS_KEY="$1"
SEARCH_PATTERN="$2"

echo "performing search in the following keypass databases:"
for i in "${@:3}"; do
  echo "$i"
done
echo

echo "starting search ..."
for i in "${@:3}"; do
  echo "searching in $i, output:"
  keepassxc-cli ls -q -R -k "$KEYPASS_KEY" "$i" <<< "$pw" | grep -i "$SEARCH_PATTERN"
  # keepassxc-cli locate -q "$i" $SEARCH_PATTERN -k "$KEYPASS_KEY" <<< "$pw"
  echo
done

I used the script to search in a Keypass database that uses a keyfile and a password. If you don't have a keyfile, you need to slightly modify the script.

How I used it:

./find-keypass-entry.sh <path-to-keyfile>           <search-pattern-ignore-case> <list of all databases>
./find-keypass-entry.sh /tmp/keychains/database.key "fin"                        ~/Downloads/database*