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<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
+ <para>If invoked with no arguments, directives from the configuration 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>
+ arguments is executed. If the string <literal>-</literal> is specified instead of a filename, the
+ configuration is read from standard input. If the argument is a file name (without any slashes), all
+ configuration directories are searched for a matching file and the file found that has the highest
+ priority is executed. If the argument is a path, that file is used directly without searching the
+ configuration directories for any other matching file.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>