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pacdiff

Maintenance utility for .pacorig, .pacnew, and .pacsave files created by pacman. tldr-pages

On Linux

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Linux

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Review files that need maintenance in interactive mode

pacdiffIdentify

Use sudo and sudoedit to remove and merge files

pacdiff --sudoIdentify

Review files needing maintenance, creating .bakups of the original if you (O)verwrite

pacdiff --sudo --backupIdentify

Use a specific editor to view and merge configuration files (default is vim -d)

DIFFPROG=editor pacdiffIdentify

Scan for configuration files with locate instead of using pacman database

pacdiff --locateIdentify

Display help

pacdiff --helpIdentify