LCF(1)

📦 version 3.0043, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💅 LCF — bestie's guide to sniffing out which config version you actually have 💅

okay so real talk, lcf is that girl who can look at a file and go "hmm, I know exactly which historical version you are" 👑 no cap. She figures out which of the historical versions of a config is installed. Periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lcf [options] <Destination File Name> <Historical MD5SUM source directory>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: you hand lcf a destination file name, plus a directory stuffed with md5sums of the historical versions of that file, and she attempts to determine if the installed version corresponds to a historical version. That's the whole mission, bestie 🎯

And here's the tea — lcf uses the exact same algorithm that ucf uses, so she should exhibit the same behaviour. Like sisters, fr fr 💖

The source directory is literally the place where historical md5sums are expected to live. Specifically, the historical md5sums are looked for in either the file ${filename}.md5sum, or the subdirectory ${filename}.md5sum.d/ 👀

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -h, --help — prints a short usage message. Your little "hi bestie, here's how I work" moment 🫶
  • -n, --no-action — dry run, babes. She prints the actions that would be taken if the script is invoked, but takes no action. All talk, no walk 💅
  • -d [n], --debug [n] — sets the debug level to the (optional) level n (n defaults to 1). This turns on copious debugging information. Like, copious copious. She will not shut up and honestly we love that for her 🔥
  • -v, --verbose — makes the script be very verbose about setting internal variables. She's telling you everything she's doing, and she's proud of it 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /var/lib/ucf/hashfile
  • /etc/ucf.conf

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

There are no bugs. Any resemblance thereof is delirium. Really.

She said what she said. Do not perceive any bugs. There are none. It's giving flawless, and we're moving on 🙈✨

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Shoutout to the author, iconic behaviour honestly 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie — this came from the Debian GNU/Linux manual, dated Feb 1 2002, and it's LCF(1). Go forth and identify those configs, you absolute main character 🦋💖

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