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pacdiff

Maintenance utility for .pacorig, .pacnew, and .pacsave files created by pacman. More information: https://manned.org/pacdiff.

• Review files that need maintenance in interactive mode:

pacdiff

• Use sudo and sudoedit to remove and merge files:

pacdiff {{[-s|--sudo]}}

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

pacdiff {{[-s|--sudo]}} {{[-b|--backup]}}

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

DIFFPROG={{editor}} pacdiff

• Scan for configuration files with locate instead of using pacman database:

pacdiff {{[-l|--locate]}}

• Display help:

pacdiff {{[-h|--help]}}