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<title>Description</title>
- <para><command>systemd-sysusers</command> creates system users and
- groups, based on the file format and location specified in
+ <para><command>systemd-sysusers</command> creates system users and groups, based on files in the format
+ described in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysusers.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
- <para>If invoked with no arguments, it applies all directives from all files
- found in the directories specified by
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysusers.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- When invoked with positional arguments, if option
- <option>--replace=<replaceable>PATH</replaceable></option> is specified, arguments
- specified on the command line are used instead of the configuration file
- <replaceable>PATH</replaceable>. Otherwise, just the configuration specified by
- the command line arguments is executed. The string <literal>-</literal> may be
- specified instead of a filename to instruct <command>systemd-sysusers</command>
- to read the configuration from standard input. If only the basename of a file is
- specified, all configuration directories are searched for a matching file and
- the file found that has the highest priority is executed.</para>
+ <para>If invoked with no arguments, it applies all directives from all files found in the directories
+ specified by
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysusers.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. When
+ invoked with positional arguments, if option <option>--replace=<replaceable>PATH</replaceable></option>
+ is specified, arguments specified on the command line are used instead of the configuration file
+ <replaceable>PATH</replaceable>. Otherwise, just the configuration specified by the command line
+ arguments is executed. The string <literal>-</literal> may be specified instead of a filename to instruct
+ <command>systemd-sysusers</command> to read the configuration from standard input. If the argument is a
+ relative path, all configuration directories are searched for a matching file and the file found that has
+ the highest priority is executed. If the argument is an absolute path, that file is used directly without
+ searching of the configuration directories.</para>
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