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Name

ucfq - query the ucf database

Synopsis

\& usage: ucfq [options] (/path/to/file|package)[/path/to/file|package ...]

Options

Normally, the script presents the information in a human readable tabular format, but that may be harder for a machine to parse. With this option, the output is a compact, colon separated line, with no dividers, headers, or footer.

Set the state directory to \f(CW\*(C`/path/to/dir\*(C' instead of the default \&\f(CW\*(C`/var/lib/ucf\*(C'. Used mostly for testing.

Description

This script takes a set of arguments, each of which is a package name (and thus does not contain a /) or a full path to a configuration file, and outputs the associated package, if any, if the file exists on disk, and whether it has been modified by the user. The output is either a human readable tabular form, or a compact colon-separated machine friendly format.

This script can potentially be used in package \f(CW\*(C`postrm\*(C' scripts during purge to query the system for configuration files that may still exist on the system, and whether these files have been locally modified by the user \*(-- assuming that the package registered all the configuration files with ucf using \f(CW\*(C`ucfr\*(C'.

Caveats

This is very inchoate, at the moment, and needs testing.

Bugs

None Known so far.

Author

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta\[email protected]>

Copyright And License

This script is a part of the Ucf package, and is

Copyright (c) 2006 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta\[email protected]>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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