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 MERCHANTABILITY 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



perl v5.8.8                                 2006-04-16                                    UCFQ(1)