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on Aug 3, 2012
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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
I think they meant the latter. Why is it /etc instead of, perhaps more obvious, /config or /settings?
malkia
on Aug 3, 2012
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If it was meant for configuration - probably it would've been - /cfg /ini /set /opt /flg /arg /prm (params)
As someone said - naming things is the hardest!
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