[wplug] non-RPM file scan

Brian Sammon brians+ at cs.cmu.edu
Sat Aug 9 23:27:44 EDT 2003


> Does anyone know of a program that will search a directory for files that 
> are not in the RPM database?
> (i.e. files that were not installed from an RPM, but by some other means)

Well, I decided to construct a find command that does this.  It does a rpm 
query for each file and then lists the ones it couldn't find.  It's not 
quite as slow as I feared; it took 30 seconds or so to do /usr/lib, not 
including the subdirectories.  It's slightly ugly:
  find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -exec rpm --quiet -q -f '{}' ';' -print





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