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pacdiff

Maintenance utility for .pacorig, .pacnew and .pacsave files created by pacman. More information: https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacdiff.
  • Review files that need maintenance in interactive mode:
    pacdiff
  • Use sudo and sudoedit to remove and merge files:
    pacdiff --sudo
  • Review files needing maintenance, creating .bakups of the original if you (O)verwrite:
    pacdiff --sudo --backup
  • Use a specific editor to view and merge configuration files (default is vim -d):
    DIFFPROG={{editor}} pacdiff
  • Scan for configuration files with locate instead of using pacman database:
    pacdiff --locate
  • Display help:
    pacdiff --help

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