UCFQ(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation UCFQ(1)
NAME
ucfq - query the ucf database
SYNOPSIS
usage: ucfq [options] (/path/to/file|package)[/path/to/file|package ...]
OPTIONS
--help h Print out a usage message.
--debug -d Turn on debugging mode.
--verbose -v Make the script more verbose..
--with-colons -w
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.
--state-dr dir
Set the state directory to "/path/to/dir" instead of the default
"/var/lib/ucf". 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 "postrm" 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 "ucfr".
CAVEATS
This is very inchoate, at the moment, and needs testing.
BUGS
None Known so far.
AUTHOR
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta\@debian.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This script is a part of the Ucf package, and is
Copyright (c) 2006 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta\@debian.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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