Re: Files tree

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:39:34 +0100,
  James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:

 For a number of reasons I am looking for a way of recording a
 list of the files (and file-like objects) on a Unix system at
 certain points in time. The main output would simply be sorted
 text with one fully-qualified file name on each line.
 
 What follows is my first attempt at it. I'd appreciate any
 feedback on whether I am going about it the right way or
 whether it could be improved either in concept or in coding.
 
 There are two tiny scripts. In the examples below they write to
 temporary files f1 and f2 to test the mechanism but the idea is
 that the reports would be stored in timestamped files so that
 comparisons between one report and another could be made later.
 
 The first, and primary, script generates nothing other than
 names and is as follows.
 
 export LC_ALL=C
 sudo find /\
   -path "/proc/*" -prune -o\
   -path "/run/*" -prune -o\
   -path "/sys/*" -prune -o\
   -path "/tmp/*/*" -prune -o\
   -print0 | sort -z | tr '\0' '\n' > /tmp/f1

I know just enough linux admin to be dangerous so this is probably
a dumb question, but I'm wondering why use find rather than ls?

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA