lsbom

List the contents of an installer’s bom (bill of materials) file. This can be used to find out what files an installer will add/replace in your system before running it. It can also list details of a previous install.

Syntax
      lsbom [options] [--arch archVal] [-p parameters] bom ...

Options
     -b     list block devices

     -c     list character devices

     -d     list directories

     -f     list files

     -l     list symbolic links

     -m     print modified times (for plain files only)

     -s     print only the path of each file

     -x     suppress modes for directories and symlinks

     --arch archVal
     when displaying plain files that represent fat macho binaries
     print the size and checksum of the file contents for
     the specified archVal (either "ppc" or i386")

     -p parameters
     print only some of the results Note: each option can only be
     used once:
           c       32-bit checksum
           f       file name
           F       file name with quotes (ie "/usr/bin/lsbom")
           g       group id
           G       group name
           m       file mode (permissions)
           M       symbolic file mode (ie "dr-xr-xr-x")
           s       file size
           S       formatted size
           t       mod time
           T       formatted mod time
           u       user id
           U       user name
           /       user id/group id
           ?       user name/group name

For each file in a bom, lsbom prints the file path and/or requested information. If no options are given, lsbom will display the output formatted such that each line contains the path of the entry, its mode (octal), and its UID/GID. There are slight differences in the output for plain files, directories, symbolic links, and device files.

The -p option can be used to specify a user-defined format for lsbom’s output. The format string consists of one or more characters described above where each character represents a datatype.

Datatypes will be separated by tab characters, and each line will end with a newline character. One can use this mechanism to create output similar to the ls command.

Examples

    lsbom bomfile          list the contents of bomfile

    lsbom -s bomfile       list only the paths of the contents of the bomfile

    lsbom -f -l bomfile      list the plain files and symbolic links of the
           bomfiles (but not directories or devices)

    lsbom -p MUGsf bomfiles  list the contents of bomfile displaying only the
           files' modes, user name, group name, size, and filename

    lsbom DevTools.pkg/Contents/Resources/DevTools.bom >contents.txt
                             List the files that will be installed by the "DevTools" package,
                             saving the list to contents.txt.

    lsbom DevTools.pkg/Contents/Resources/DevTools.bom | more
                             List the files that were installed by the "DevTools" package
                             and pipe it through more.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” ~ Dr. Seuss

Related macOS commands

ditto - Copy files and folders.
mkbom - Make bill of Materials.