ECONFTOOL(8)

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.

SEE ALSO

libeconf

COPYRIGHT
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