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MTREE(8)		    System Manager's Manual		      MTREE(8)

NAME
       mtree --	map a directory	hierarchy

SYNOPSIS
       mtree [-bCcDdejLlMnPqrStUuWx] [-i | -m] [-E tags] [-F flavor] [-f spec]
	     [-I  tags]	 [-K  keywords]	[-k keywords] [-N dbdir] [-O onlyfile]
	     [-p path] [-R keywords] [-s seed] [-X exclude-file]

DESCRIPTION
       The mtree utility compares a file hierarchy  against  a	specification,
       creates	a specification	for a file hierarchy, or modifies a specifica-
       tion.

       The default action, if not overridden by	command	line  options,	is  to
       compare	the  file  hierarchy rooted in the current directory against a
       specification read from the standard input.  Messages  are  written  to
       the  standard  output  for any files whose characteristics do not match
       the specification, or which are missing from either the file  hierarchy
       or the specification.

       The options are as follows:

       -b		  Suppress blank lines before entering and after exit-
			  ing directories.

       -C		  Convert  a specification into	a format that's	easier
			  to parse with	various	tools.	The  input  specifica-
			  tion	is  read  from standard	input or from the file
			  given	by -f spec.  In	the output, each file  or  di-
			  rectory  is  represented  using a single line	(which
			  might	be very	long).	The full path name  (beginning
			  with "./") is	always printed as the first field; -K,
			  -k,  and  -R can be used to control which other key-
			  words	are printed; -E	and -I can be used to  control
			  which	 files	are  printed; and the -S option	can be
			  used to sort the output.

       -c		  Print	a specification	for the	file hierarchy	origi-
			  nating  at the current working directory (or the di-
			  rectory provided by -p path) to the standard output.
			  The output is	in a style using relative path names.

       -D		  As per -C, except  that  the	path  name  is	always
			  printed as the last field instead of the first.

       -d		  Ignore everything except directory type files.

       -E tags		  Add  the  comma  separated  tags  to the "exclusion"
			  list.	 Non-directories with tags which  are  in  the
			  exclusion list are not printed with -C and -D.

       -e		  Don't	 complain about	files that are in the file hi-
			  erarchy, but not in the specification.

       -F flavor	  Set the compatibility	flavor of the  mtree  utility.
			  The  flavor  can  be	one  of	 mtree,	 freebsd9,  or
			  netbsd6.  The	default	is mtree.   The	 freebsd9  and
			  netbsd6 flavors attempt to preserve output compatib-
			  lity	and command line option	backward compatibility
			  with FreeBSD 9.0 and NetBSD 6.0 respectively.

       -f spec		  Read the specification from file,  instead  of  from
			  the standard input.

			  If  this option is specified twice, the two specifi-
			  cations are compared to each other  rather  than  to
			  the  file  hierarchy.	  The  specifications  will be
			  sorted like output generated using -c.   The	output
			  format  in  this  case  is  somewhat	reminiscent of
			  comm(1), having "in first  spec  only",  "in	second
			  spec	only",	and  "different"  columns, prefixed by
			  zero,	one and	two TAB	characters respectively.  Each
			  entry	in the "different" column occupies two	lines,
			  one from each	specification.

       -I tags		  Add  the  comma  separated  tags  to the "inclusion"
			  list.	 Non-directories with tags which  are  in  the
			  inclusion  list  are	printed	with -C	and -D.	 If no
			  inclusion list is provided, the default is  to  dis-
			  play all files.

       -i		  If specified,	set the	schg and/or sappnd flags.

       -j		  Indent  the  output  4  spaces each time a directory
			  level	is descended  when  creating  a	 specification
			  with the -c option.  This does not affect either the
			  /set	statements  or	the comment before each	direc-
			  tory.	 It does however affect	the comment before the
			  close	of each	directory.  This is the	equivalent  of
			  the -i option	in the FreeBSD version of mtree.

       -K keywords	  Add  the  specified  (whitespace or comma separated)
			  keywords to the current set of keywords.   If	 `all'
			  is specified,	add all	of the other keywords.

       -k keywords	  Use  the type	keyword	plus the specified (whitespace
			  or comma separated) keywords instead of the  current
			  set  of keywords.  If	`all' is specified, use	all of
			  the other keywords.  If the type keyword is not  de-
			  sired, suppress it with -R type.

       -L		  Follow all symbolic links in the file	hierarchy.

       -l		  Do  "loose" permissions checks, in which more	strin-
			  gent permissions will	 match	less  stringent	 ones.
			  For  example,	 a  file  marked mode 0444 will	pass a
			  check	for mode 0644.	"Loose"	checks apply  only  to
			  read,	 write	and execute permissions	-- in particu-
			  lar, if other	bits like the sticky bit or  suid/sgid
			  bits	are  set  either  in  the specification	or the
			  file,	exact checking will be performed.  This	option
			  may not be set at the	same time as the -U or -u  op-
			  tion.

       -M		  Permit merging of specification entries with differ-
			  ent types, with the last entry taking	precedence.

       -m		  If the schg and/or sappnd flags are specified, reset
			  these	 flags.	  Note that this is only possible with
			  securelevel less than	1 (i.e., in single  user  mode
			  or  while  the  system is running in insecure	mode).
			  See init(8) for information on security levels.

       -n		  Do not emit pathname comments	when creating a	speci-
			  fication.  Normally a	comment	is emitted before each
			  directory and	before the  close  of  that  directory
			  when using the -c option.

       -N dbdir		  Use  the  user  database text	file master.passwd and
			  group	database text file group  from	dbdir,	rather
			  than using the results from the system's getpwnam(3)
			  and getgrnam(3) (and related)	library	calls.

       -O onlypaths	  Only	include	 files	included in this list of path-
			  names.

       -P		  Don't	follow symbolic	links in the  file  hierarchy,
			  instead  consider  the  symbolic  link itself	in any
			  comparisons.	This is	the default.

       -p path		  Use the file hierarchy rooted	in  path,  instead  of
			  the current directory.

       -q		  Quiet	mode.  Do not complain when a "missing"	direc-
			  tory	cannot	be  created because it already exists.
			  This occurs when the directory is a symbolic link.

       -R keywords	  Remove the specified (whitespace or comma separated)
			  keywords from	the current set	of keywords.  If `all'
			  is specified,	remove all of the other	keywords.

       -r		  Remove any files in the file hierarchy that are  not
			  described in the specification.

       -S		  When	reading	 a specification into an internal data
			  structure, sort the entries.	 Sorting  will	affect
			  the order of the output produced by the -C or	-D op-
			  tions, and will also affect the order	in which miss-
			  ing entries are created or reported when a directory
			  tree is checked against a specification.

			  The  sort  order  is the same	as that	used by	the -c
			  option, which	is that	entries	within the same	direc-
			  tory are sorted in the order used by strcmp(3),  ex-
			  cept	that  entries  for  subdirectories  sort after
			  other	entries.  By default, if the -S	option is  not
			  used,	 entries  within  the  same directory are col-
			  lected together (separated from  entries  for	 other
			  directories),	but not	sorted.

       -s seed		  Display a single checksum to the standard error out-
			  put  that  represents	all of the files for which the
			  keyword cksum	was specified.	The checksum is	seeded
			  with the specified value.

       -t		  Modify the modified time of existing files, the  de-
			  vice	type of	devices, and symbolic link targets, to
			  match	the specification.

       -U		  Same as -u except that a mismatch is not  considered
			  to be	an error if it was corrected.

       -u		  Modify  the  owner, group, permissions, and flags of
			  existing files, the device type of devices, and sym-
			  bolic	link  targets,	to  match  the	specification.
			  Create  any missing directories, devices or symbolic
			  links.  User,	group, and  permissions	 must  all  be
			  specified  for  missing  directories	to be created.
			  Note that unless the -i option is  given,  the  schg
			  and sappnd flags will	not be set, even if specified.
			  If  -m  is  given,  these flags will be reset.  Exit
			  with a status	of 0 on	success, 2 if the file hierar-
			  chy did not match the	specification, and  1  if  any
			  other	error occurred.

       -W		  Don't	attempt	to set various file attributes such as
			  the  ownership,  mode,  flags, or time when creating
			  new directories or changing existing entries.	  This
			  option  will be most useful when used	in conjunction
			  with -U or -u.

       -X exclude-file	  The  specified  file	contains  fnmatch(3)  patterns
			  matching  files  to  be excluded from	the specifica-
			  tion,	one to a line.	If the pattern contains	a  `/'
			  character,  it  will be matched against entire path-
			  names	(relative to the starting  directory);	other-
			  wise,	 it  will  be  matched against basenames only.
			  Comments are permitted in the	exclude-list file.

       -x		  Don't	descend	below mount points in the file hierar-
			  chy.

       Specifications are mostly composed of  "keywords",  i.e.	 strings  that
       that  specify  values relating to files.	 No keywords have default val-
       ues, and	if a keyword has no value set, no checks based on it are  per-
       formed.

       Currently supported keywords are	as follows:

       cksum	       The  checksum  of  the file using the default algorithm
		       specified by the	cksum(1) utility.

       device	       The device number to use	for block or char file	types.
		       The argument must be one	of the following forms:

		       format,major,minor
			     A	device with major and minor fields, for	an op-
			     erating system specified with format.  See	 below
			     for valid formats.

		       format,major,unit,subunit
			     A	device	with  major, unit, and subunit fields,
			     for an operating system  specified	 with  format.
			     (Currently	 this  is  only	supported by the bsdos
			     format.)

		       number
			     Opaque number (as stored on the file system).

		       The following values for	format are recognized: native,
		       386bsd, 4bsd, bsdos, freebsd, hpux, isc,	linux, netbsd,
		       osf1, sco, solaris, sunos, svr3,	svr4, and ultrix.

		       See mknod(8) for	more details.

       flags	       The file	flags as a symbolic name.  See chflags(1)  for
		       information  on these names.  If	no flags are to	be set
		       the string `none' may be	used to	override  the  current
		       default.	  Note	that  the  schg	 and  sappnd flags are
		       treated specially (see the -i and -m options).

       ignore	       Ignore any file hierarchy below this file.

       gid	       The file	group as a numeric value.

       gname	       The file	group as a symbolic name.

       link	       The file	the symbolic link is expected to reference.

       md5	       The MD5 cryptographic message digest of the file.

       md5digest       Synonym for md5.

       mode	       The current file's permissions as a numeric (octal)  or
		       symbolic	value.

       nlink	       The number of hard links	the file is expected to	have.

       nochange	       Make  sure  this	file or	directory exists but otherwise
		       ignore all attributes.

       optional	       The file	is optional; don't complain about the file  if
		       it's not	in the file hierarchy.

       ripemd160digest
		       Synonym for rmd160.

       rmd160	       The RMD-160 cryptographic message digest	of the file.

       rmd160digest    Synonym for rmd160.

       sha1	       The SHA-1 cryptographic message digest of the file.

       sha1digest      Synonym for sha1.

       sha256	       The  256-bits SHA-2 cryptographic message digest	of the
		       file.

       sha256digest    Synonym for sha256.

       sha384	       The 384-bits SHA-2 cryptographic	message	digest of  the
		       file.

       sha384digest    Synonym for sha384.

       sha512	       The  512-bits SHA-2 cryptographic message digest	of the
		       file.

       sha512digest    Synonym for sha512.

       size	       The size, in bytes, of the file.

       tags	       Comma delimited tags to be  matched  with  -E  and  -I.
		       These may be specified without leading or trailing com-
		       mas, but	will be	stored internally with them.

       time	       The  last  modification time of the file, in second and
		       nanoseconds.  The value should include a	period charac-
		       ter and exactly nine digits after the period.

       type	       The type	of the file; may be set	to any one of the fol-
		       lowing:

		       block   block special device
		       char    character special device
		       dir     directory
		       fifo    fifo
		       file    regular file
		       link    symbolic	link
		       socket  socket

       uid	       The file	owner as a numeric value.

       uname	       The file	owner as a symbolic name.

       The default set of keywords are flags, gid, link,  mode,	 nlink,	 size,
       time, type, and uid.

       There are four types of lines in	a specification:

       1.   Set	 global	 values	 for  a	 keyword.  This	consists of the	string
	    `/set' followed by whitespace, followed by sets  of	 keyword/value
	    pairs,  separated by whitespace.  Keyword/value pairs consist of a
	    keyword, followed by an equals sign	(`='), followed	 by  a	value,
	    without  whitespace	 characters.  Once a keyword has been set, its
	    value remains unchanged until either reset or unset.

       2.   Unset global values	for a keyword.	This consists  of  the	string
	    `/unset',  followed	 by  whitespace,  followed by one or more key-
	    words, separated by	whitespace.  If	`all' is specified, unset  all
	    of the keywords.

       3.   A  file  specification,  consisting	 of  a	path name, followed by
	    whitespace,	followed by zero or  more  whitespace  separated  key-
	    word/value pairs.

	    The	 path name may be preceded by whitespace characters.  The path
	    name may contain any of the	standard path name matching characters
	    (`[', `]', `?' or `*'), in which case files	in the hierarchy  will
	    be	associated with	the first pattern that they match.  mtree uses
	    strsvis(3) (in VIS_CSTYLE format) to encode	path names  containing
	    non-printable  characters.	 Whitespace  characters	are encoded as
	    `\s' (space), `\t' (tab), and `\n' (new line).  `#'	characters  in
	    path names are escaped by a	preceding backslash `\'	to distinguish
	    them from comments.

	    Each  of the keyword/value pairs consist of	a keyword, followed by
	    an equals sign (`='), followed by  the  keyword's  value,  without
	    whitespace	characters.   These values override, without changing,
	    the	global value of	the corresponding keyword.

	    The	first path name	entry listed must be a directory named `.', as
	    this ensures that intermixing full and relative  path  names  will
	    work consistently and correctly.  Multiple entries for a directory
	    named  `.'	are  permitted;	 the  settings for the last such entry
	    override those of the existing entry.

	    A path name	that contains a	slash (`/')  that  is  not  the	 first
	    character  will be treated as a full path (relative	to the root of
	    the	tree).	All parent directories referenced  in  the  path  name
	    must  exist.   The	current	 directory  path used by relative path
	    names will be updated appropriately.   Multiple  entries  for  the
	    same  full path are	permitted if the types are the same (unless -M
	    is given, in which case the	types may differ); in  this  case  the
	    settings for the last entry	take precedence.

	    A  path  name  that	 does not contain a slash will be treated as a
	    relative path.  Specifying a directory will	cause subsequent files
	    to be searched for in that directory hierarchy.

       4.   A line containing only the string `..' which  causes  the  current
	    directory path (used by relative paths) to ascend one level.

       Empty  lines  and  lines	whose first non-whitespace character is	a hash
       mark (`#') are ignored.

       The mtree utility exits with a status of	0 on success, 1	if  any	 error
       occurred, and 2 if the file hierarchy did not match the specification.

FILES
       /etc/mtree  system specification	directory

EXAMPLES
       To  detect system binaries that have been "trojan horsed", it is	recom-
       mended that mtree be run	on the file systems, and a copy	of the results
       stored on a different machine, or, at least, in	encrypted  form.   The
       seed  for  the  -s  option should not be	an obvious value and the final
       checksum	should not be stored on-line under any	circumstances!	 Then,
       periodically,  mtree  should  be	run against the	on-line	specifications
       and the final checksum compared with the	previous value.	 While	it  is
       possible	 for the bad guys to change the	on-line	specifications to con-
       form to their modified binaries,	it shouldn't be	possible for  them  to
       make  it	 produce the same final	checksum value.	 If the	final checksum
       value changes, the off-line copies of the specification can be used  to
       detect which of the binaries have actually been modified.

       The -d option can be used in combination	with -U	or -u to create	direc-
       tory hierarchies	for, for example, distributions.

COMPATIBILITY
       The compatibility shims provided	by the -F option are incomplete	by de-
       sign.  Known limitations	are described below.

       The freebsd9 flavor retains the default handling	of lookup failures for
       the uname and group keywords by replacing them with appropriate uid and
       gid  keywords  rather than failing and reporting	an error.  The related
       -w flag is a no-op rather than causing a	warning	to be printed  and  no
       keyword	to  be	emitted.  The latter behavior is not emulated as it is
       potentially dangerous in	the face of /set statements.

       The netbsd6 flavor does not replicate the historical bug	that  reported
       time as seconds.nanoseconds without zero	padding	nanosecond values less
       than 100000000.

SEE ALSO
       chflags(1),  chgrp(1), chmod(1),	cksum(1), stat(2), fnmatch(3), fts(3),
       strsvis(3), mtree(5), chown(8), mknod(8)

HISTORY
       The mtree utility appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.  The	optional  keyword  ap-
       peared in NetBSD	1.2.  The -U option appeared in	NetBSD 1.3.  The flags
       and  md5	 keywords,  and	-i and -m options appeared in NetBSD 1.4.  The
       device, rmd160, sha1, tags, and all keywords, -D, -E, -I, -L,  -l,  -N,
       -P,  -R,	 -W,  and  -X  options,	and support for	full paths appeared in
       NetBSD 1.6.  The	 sha256,  sha384,  and	sha512	keywords  appeared  in
       NetBSD 3.0.  The	-S option appeared in NetBSD 6.0.

FreeBSD	13.2		       February	3, 2013			      MTREE(8)

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