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6 rpmconf - This tool search for .rpmnew, .rpmsave and .rpmorigfiles and
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11 rpmconf [ options ... ]
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48 Rpmconf will search for all config file of given package (or all
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76 Find all .rpmnew and .rpmsave files in /etc and /var directo‐
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82 Dry run. Instead of executing an action (move/remove of file) it
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90 Non-interactive diff mode. This option works with --owner and
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94 Just test existence of files to merge. If there is some file to
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111 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com>
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115Version 0.2 15 July 2018 RPMCONF(8)