Usage: econftool COMMAND [OPTIONS] <. | > If (begins with "/") is given, only this file will be parsed. Otherwise different files in /etc /usr/vendor and */.suffix.d/ directories will be parsed. COMMANDS: show reads all snippets for .conf (in /usr/etc and /etc), and prints all groups,keys and their values. The root directories is /. It can be set by the environment variable $ECONFTOOL_ROOT cat prints the content of the files and the name of the file in the order as it has been read. syntax checks the syntax, prints parsing errors and returns 1 if an error has been found (otherwise 0). as it has been read. edit starts the editor $EDITOR (environment variable) where the groups, keys and values can be modified and saved afterwards. -f, --full: copy the original configuration file to /etc instead of creating drop-in files. --use-home: only has an effect if the user is root. chooses the root home directory instead of /etc. revert reverts all changes to the vendor versions. Basically deletes the config file and snippet directory in /etc. -y, --yes: assumes yes for all prompts and runs non-interactively. general Options: --comment : Character which starts a comment. ('#' default). --delimiters : Characters which separates key/value entries. ("=" default). e.g. --delimiters="= \t" e.g. --delimiters=spaces regarding all spaces