cowdancer-ilistcreate(1)

📦 version 0.90build1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute

💖 cowdancer-ilistcreate — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is cowdancer-ilistcreate from the cowdancer manual, section 1. she's a little low-level gremlin but she's ours and she's iconic 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

cowdancer-ilistcreate — creates an .ilist file for use with cowdancer. no cap, that's literally the whole job description 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cowdancer-ilistcreate ilist-path find-option

two args, that's it, she's low-maintenance:

  • ilist-path — where the .ilist file goes
  • find-option — the custom find operation you want her to run

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

cowdancer-ilistcreate generates an .ilist file with a custom find operation. that's the vibe. you hand her a find command, she hands you back an .ilist. periodt.

heads up tho bestie — this is a low-level command for use internally. she's not the main character of the cowdancer story, she's the backstage queen making it all work 🔥 iykyk.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's the one example, straight up:

cowdancer-ilistcreate .ilist 'find . -xdev -path ./home -prune -o ( (
-type l -o -type f ) -a -links +1 -print0 ) | xargs -0 stat --format

that creates an .ilist file with excluding the "./home/" directory. yes the find invocation is a whole mood and yes it's doing the pruning so ./home/ never makes it into the list 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Junichi Uekawa (dancer@debian.org)

the upstream page is available at http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/cowdancer.html — go say hi to the source of truth ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • cow-shell (1) — the sibling, go read her too

that's the whole page, bestie, no filler 🌸

sign-off time: this lil beauty comes to you from cowdancer, dated 2007 Aug 31 (yes she's vintage, she's a classic, she's aged like fine wine 🍓). mwah 💖

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