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pacrepairfile — Reset properties on files managed by alpm. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacut

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Problem

How to use the pacrepairfile command: Reset properties on files managed by alpm. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacrepairfile.pod>.

Solution

pacrepairfile — Reset properties on files managed by alpm. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacrepairfile.pod>.

Search for the package and reset the properties of a file:

pacrepairfile {{path/to/file}} --package

Reset a file quietly:

pacrepairfile {{package_name}} --quiet --package

Reset specific file properties (mode, owner UID, group GID, or modification time):

pacrepairfile {{package_name}} --{{mode|gid|mtime|uid}} --package

Display help:

pacrepairfile --help

Display version:

pacrepairfile --version

Code Snippets

Search for the package and reset the properties of a file

pacrepairfile {{path/to/file}} --package

Reset a file quietly

pacrepairfile {{package_name}} --quiet --package

Reset specific file properties (mode, owner UID, group GID, or modification time)

pacrepairfile {{package_name}} --{{mode|gid|mtime|uid}} --package

Display help

pacrepairfile --help

Display version

pacrepairfile --version

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pacrepairfile

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