mkepmlist(1)

✨ mkepmlist(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this one's called mkepmlist, and it lives in the Jim Jagielski corner of your man pages 💅 she's here to make an epm list file from a directory, and honestly? she ate.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mkepmlist — make an epm list file from a directory. periodt. that's her whole job.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mkepmlist [ -g group ] [ -u user ] [ --prefix directory ] directory [
...  directory ]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, mkepmlist (1) goes through everything recursively — and I mean everything — and generates file list entries for files, links, and directories. no cap, it does not skip a single one 🫶

and where does that file list go? straight to standard output. so it's giving "I made you a list and you can do whatever you want with it," which is v generous of her honestly.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

mkepmlist supports the following options (we love a girl with range):

• -g group — overrides the group ownership of the files in the directories you specified with the group name you specified. like, "hi bestie, these files belong to this group now, mwah" 💅
• -u user — overrides the user ownership of the files in the directories you specified with the user name you specified. same vibe, different field. iconic.
• --prefix directory — adds the directory you gave it to the destination path. okay so picture this: you installed your files to /opt/foo, but you want to build a distribution that installs them into /usr/local. the following command would generate a file list that's installed in /usr/local:

mkepmlist --prefix=/usr/local /opt/foo >foo.list

like the way that just works?? obsessed 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

epm(1), epminstall(1), epm.list(5).

go read those too, they're all in the same friend group ✨

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 1999-2020 by Michael R Sweet, All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2020 by Jim Jagielski, All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

fr fr please read the license, bestie — the whole "AS IS" thing means no warranty of ANY KIND, express or implied, so don't come for her if something's weird 😭 it's giving legal realness.

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 written down on 20 November 2020, straight outta the ESP Package Manager era, and yes she's still serving. bye bestie, go make that list 🩷✨