How To Install treescan on CentOS 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install treescan on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install treescan.

Install treescan on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install treescan

Install treescan on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install treescan

How To Uninstall treescan on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove treescan

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Summary

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