aperezdc / ltree

Utility to work with file lists in the format of the BSD mtree tool

ltree

Utility to work with file lists in the format of the BSD mtree(8) tool.

Note: This is not a replacement for mtree, and you may want to have both installed side-by-side.

Building

Make sure you have libarchive and its development headers installed. Meson is used for configuration and Ninja for building; Samurai can be used for building as well:

meson build
ninja -C build

Usage

File lists in mtree format are accepted on standard input.

• ltree -l < MTREE prints out the contents of the list. The -l flag can be omitted, as this is the default mode.

• ltree -C < MTREE checks whether the files from the list are present in the file system and match the specification.

Operations which act on the file system accept a -p PATH command line option which prepends PATH as prefix to all the file names in the list. Verbose operation can be enabled with -v, which lists each entry as it is processed.

Any operation which prints paths in the output can output them delimited by null characters by passing -0 as a command line option.

Interoperability

The ltree tool can use file lists in the format recognized by libarchive.

On GNU/Linux the mtree port by @archiecobbs is known to generate compatible output.

License

Distributed under terms of the MIT/X11 license