FF(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures FF(8)

NAME

ff - list file names and statistics for a file system

SYNOPSIS

ff [-F FSType] [-V] [generic_options] [-o specific_options] special...

DESCRIPTION

ff prints the pathnames and inode numbers of files in the file system
which resides on the special device special. Other information about
the files may be printed using options described below. Selection
criteria may be used to instruct ff to only print information for
certain files. If no selection criteria are specified, information
for all files considered will be printed (the default); the -i option
may be used to limit files to those whose inodes are specified.


Output is sorted in ascending inode number order. The default line
produced by ff is:


path-name i-number


The maximum information the command will provide is:


path-name i-number size uid

OPTIONS

-F
Specify the FSType on which to operate. The
FSType should either be specified here or be
determinable from /etc/vfstab by matching the
special with an entry in the table, or by
consulting /etc/default/fs.


-V
Echo the complete command line, but do not execute
the command. The command line is generated by
using the options and arguments provided by the
user and adding to them information derived from
/etc/vfstab. This option may be used to verify and
validate the command line.


generic_options
Options that are supported by most FSType-specific
modules of the command. The following options are
available:

-I
Do not print the i-node number
after each path name.


-l
Generate a supplementary list of
all path names for multiply-
linked files.


-p prefix
The specified prefix will be
added to each generated path
name. The default is `.' (dot).


-s
Print the file size, in bytes,
after each path name.


-u
Print the owner's login name
after each path name.


-a -n
Select if the file has been
accessed in n days.


-m -n
Select if the file has been
written or created in n days.


-c -n
Select if file's status has been
changed in n days.


-n file
Select if the file has been
modified more recently than the
argument file.


-i i-node-list
Generate names for only those i-
nodes specified in i-node-list.
i-node-list is a list of numbers
separated by commas (with no
intervening spaces).


-o
Specify FSType-specific options in a comma
separated (without spaces) list of suboptions and
keyword-attribute pairs for interpretation by the
FSType-specific module of the command.

OPERANDS

special
A special device.

USAGE

See largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of ff when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

FILES

/etc/default/fs
default local file system type. Default values can
be set for the following flags in /etc/default/fs.
For example: LOCAL=ufs

LOCAL
The default partition for a command if no
FSType is specified.


/etc/vfstab
list of default parameters for each file system

SEE ALSO

find(1), ncheck(8), stat(2), vfstab(5), attributes(7), largefile(7)
Manual pages for the FSType-specific modules of ff.

NOTES

This command may not be supported for all FSTypes.


The -a, -m, and -c flags examine the st_atime, st_mtime, and
st_ctime fields of the stat structure respectively. (See stat(2).)

February 10, 1997 FF(8)