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Re: getconf default output
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> Nix wrote:
>
>> What might make sense is printing out the names without the values,
>
> That's not much use.
I disagree. It often happens to me that I'm looking for a specific
parameter but can't remember exactly how it is spelled. Getting the list
of all names from running getconf is much faster than looking them up in
the manual. So at least having an option to print the list would be
useful, IMHO.
Andreas.
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