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| From | Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| Subject | Re: dot files convention |
| Date | 2022-04-01 13:37 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <t26v6g$9bt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <t26tqp$64q$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
On Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:14:00 +0200, alex wrote: > https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dotfiles-what-is-a-dot-file-and-how-to-create-it-in-mac-and-linux/ > > "Many computer software programs store their configuration settings in > plain, text-based files or directories. > > Dotfiles are configuration files for various programs, and they help > those programs manage their functionality. > > What sets them apart from regular files and directories is their prefix. > > Dotfiles are named that way because each file and directory starts with > a dot (.)" > > But then why don't files like composer.json, Dockerfile, > phpdoc.dist.xml, phpunit.xml.dist, etc, do not follow this convention? > Because they don't start with a dot (.composer.json, .Dockerfile, etc)? What that article neglects to mention (or, at least, neglects to stress) system-wide configuration files /are not/ stored as dotfiles, or as files under a dot-directory, but are, instead, stored as regularly-named files (in regularly-named directories) under a system-owned directory. The convention is that only /personal, per-user/ configuration files are stored as dotfiles, or files under a dot-directory in the user's home directory. HTH -- Lew Pitcher "In Skills, We Trust"
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dot files convention alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2022-04-01 15:14 +0200
Re: dot files convention Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-04-01 13:37 +0000
Re: dot files convention "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-04-01 16:06 +0200
Re: dot files convention alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2022-04-01 17:19 +0200
Re: dot files convention Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-04-01 15:36 +0000
Re: dot files convention "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-04-02 10:41 +0200
Re: dot files convention alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2022-04-02 10:57 +0200
Re: dot files convention alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2022-04-01 18:01 +0200
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