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/usr/bin/guards

Easily manage large numbers of patches

From quilt 0.69-r4 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running guards --help (exit 0). permalink

/usr/bin/guards - select from a list of files guarded by conditions
SYNOPSIS: /usr/bin/guards [--prefix=dir] [--path=dir1:dir2:...]
	[--default=0|1] [--check|--list] [--invert-match]
	[--with-guards] [--config=file] symbol ...

	Defaults: --default=1
	Use --path=@<file> to read the list of entries from <file>
Options (1)
OptionDescriptionSource
-xxx Exclude+!xxx Include the file(s) on this line if the symbol xxx is not defined.man

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