How To Install treescan on Fedora 34

treescan is Scan directory trees, list dirs/files, stat, sync, grep

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install treescan on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install treescan.

Install treescan on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install treescan

Install treescan on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove treescan

treescan Package Contents on Fedora 34

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

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install treescan on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.