How To Install treescan on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install treescan on Rocky Linux 8. treescan is Scan directory trees, list dirs/files, stat, sync, grep

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install treescan on Rocky Linux 8.

What is treescan

The treescan command scans directories and their contents recursively. By default it lists all files and directories (with trailing /), but it can optionally do various other things. If no paths are given, treescan will use the current directory.

We can use yum or dnf to install treescan on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install treescan.

Install treescan on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install treescan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install treescan

Install treescan on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install treescan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install treescan

How To Uninstall treescan on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the treescan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove treescan

treescan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/treescan
/usr/share/man/man1/treescan.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install treescan on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.