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Re: getconf default output
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> It could use current working directory (.) if no argument is provided.
> Or even the root (/).
That's all misleading since people will only expect it's a universal
value. There is no reason to add all this. If you know the variable
name, use it. Otherwise you won't find anything useful in the long list
of variable names.
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