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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Looking for a file within a given slackware distribution. Post 302757833 by stf92 on Friday 18th of January 2013 05:17:31 AM

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Looking for a file within a given slackware distribution.

Hi: suppose you want to look for file foo belonging to the Slackware N.N distribution. Then either you make a full installation or N.N and look into /var/log/packages (grep) or you go to some Slackware index tree in the web and you traverse the tree node by node, which would be a great deal of work to do and therefor impracticable.

Now suppose further that you are not able, momentarily, to install N.N to your disk. Perhaps you have it now occupied by another O.S. or for whatever reason. So your only place where to look at is the N.N disk itself. In this disk your have PACKAGES.TXT and FILELIST.TXT. But neither of these will do. They list packages but not their contents.

So, in spite of having the disk, you arent able to know if foo is there or not or, in case you know it is, in which package. Is this really true?

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FOSREAD(1)							   User Commands							FOSREAD(1)

NAME

       fosread - FOS reader

SYNOPSIS

       fosread [options] device mode [node] [path]

DESCRIPTION

       Tool for a read-only access on Smaky FOS.

       -h --help
	      Display help message.

       -v --version
	      Show version.

       -a --harddisk
	      Force an hard disk instead of the autodetection.

       -f --floppydisk
	      Force a floppy disk instead of the autodetection.

       -l --fos-logger
	      Turn ON the FOS logger.

       -u --undelete
	      enable the undelete mode, even deleted files will be listed and sometimes restorable with get mode.

       device /dev/fd0 for floppy disk
	      /dev/sda for hard disk, etc, ...

       mode   list : list the content of a node
	      get  : copy a file from the Smaky disk in a local directory

       node   The tree with the file (or folder) for get or list.
	      example: foo/bar/toto.text

       path   You can specify a path for save the file (with get mode).

AUTHOR

       Written by Mathieu Schroeter <mathieu.schroeter@gamesover.ch>.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <fosfat-devel@gamesover.ch>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Mathieu Schroeter

       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

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fosread 							     July 2009								FOSREAD(1)