NAME

       econftool - Configuration File Manager

SYNOPSIS

       econftool COMMAND [OPTIONS] </path/to/configfile>.conf

DESCRIPTION

       Tool which allows to easily manage the configuration file snippets.

COMMANDS

       show   Reads  all  snippets  for  <filename>.conf  (in /usr/etc and /etc), and prints all groups,keys and
              their  values.   The  root  directories  is  /.  It  can  be  set  by  the  environment   variable
              $ECONFTOOL_ROOT.

       cat    Prints the content of the files and the name of the file in the order as it has been read.

       edit   Starts the editor $EDITOR (environment variable) where the groups, keys and values can be modified
              and saved afterwards.

              OPTIONS
               -f, --full:      Copy the original configuration file to /etc instead of
                                creating drop-in files.
               --use-home:      Only has an effect if the user is root.
                                Chooses the root home directory instead of /etc.

       revert Reverts  all  changes  to  the  vendor  versions.  Basically  deletes  the config file and snippet
              directory in /etc.

              OPTIONS
                -y, --yes:       Assumes yes for all prompts and runs non-interactively.

general OPTIONS

       --comment <character>
                Character which starts a comment. ('#' default).

       --delimiters <string>
               Characters which separates key/value entries. ("=" default).
               e.g. --delimiters="= "
               e.g. --delimiters=spaces   regarding all spaces

SEE ALSO

       libeconf

COPYRIGHT

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libeconf                                           2 Apr 2021                                       ECONFTOOL(8)