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 ma‐
            chine 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  modi‐
       fied  by the user.  The output is either a human readable tabular form, or a compact colon-separated machine friendly for‐
       mat.

       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  Li‐
       cense  as  published  by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later ver‐
       sion.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even  the  implied  war‐
       ranty 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 Soft‐
       ware Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

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