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## 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 con‐
       tain 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  ei‐
       ther 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 con‐
       figuration 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/UCFQ/1/markdown)