Re: Finding all files on a system not in an RPM

["Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky telemetry-investments com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:14:44PM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:49:32AM -0700, JT wrote:
> > So,  I'll ask a) for a search tool to be added to the RPM-list archives at 
> > some point (please :) and b) for any useful ways people have of creating a 
> > list of all files on a system which are not part of any RPM on the system.
> 
> LC_ALL=C bash2 -c "comm -23 <(find / | sort -u) <(rpm -qal | sort -u)"
> 
> Note that this does handle filenames with embedded newlines correctly.

Sorry to reply to myself, but note that one should of course
pipe the result through a filter such as:

	egrep -v '^/(proc|tmp|var/tmp)'

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky