Script to find files that don't belong to stock Slackware system and installed packages
by titopoquito from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CBSB)
Hi all,
I had the need (or wish :) ) to find orphaned files and such files, that I added to my system. Since I could not find that feature in one of the usual Slackware tools, I wrote a script for that myself. It's far from being perfect, but it does the job for me.
Save the script, save a copy of Slackware's MANIFEST.bz2 somewhere and change the first line after the shebang line accordingly. Additionally you can list a range of package tags (like "alien" for Eric's packages or "SBo" for the ones you installed from slackbuilds.org). Further down in the script there is a block of patterns that are excluded from the list (like stuff in /tmp oder /var/run or files in __pycache__ folders), modify it as you like.
The script tries to collect a list of all files from the MANIFEST and from all installed packages with the specified tags, including the symlinks that are created by the package's doinst.sh scripts. Then it perfoms a search of the whole system and tries to identify those files that are not in the before created list.
I get some small errors when running the script, like with one link from the vte package (I guess because the line creating a symlink contains a * wildcard). You will have to treat the generated list as a help, not as a perfect list that could be processed blindly.
Like I said, it's not perfect and takes a while to run, but for me it was helpful. Hopefully some of you find it helpful, too.
Suggestions are welcome (I suspect it could be made much for efficiently).
Cheers :hattip:
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I had the need (or wish :) ) to find orphaned files and such files, that I added to my system. Since I could not find that feature in one of the usual Slackware tools, I wrote a script for that myself. It's far from being perfect, but it does the job for me.
Save the script, save a copy of Slackware's MANIFEST.bz2 somewhere and change the first line after the shebang line accordingly. Additionally you can list a range of package tags (like "alien" for Eric's packages or "SBo" for the ones you installed from slackbuilds.org). Further down in the script there is a block of patterns that are excluded from the list (like stuff in /tmp oder /var/run or files in __pycache__ folders), modify it as you like.
The script tries to collect a list of all files from the MANIFEST and from all installed packages with the specified tags, including the symlinks that are created by the package's doinst.sh scripts. Then it perfoms a search of the whole system and tries to identify those files that are not in the before created list.
I get some small errors when running the script, like with one link from the vte package (I guess because the line creating a symlink contains a * wildcard). You will have to treat the generated list as a help, not as a perfect list that could be processed blindly.
Like I said, it's not perfect and takes a while to run, but for me it was helpful. Hopefully some of you find it helpful, too.
Suggestions are welcome (I suspect it could be made much for efficiently).
Cheers :hattip:
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