Re: What does .d at the end of some dirctory and filenames actually stand for?

[Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:51:14PM +0200, spamfuerdavid@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I (and some other people) are wondering about the question:
> 
> "What does .d at the end of some dirctory and filenames actually stand for?"
> 
> 
> It does not mean deamon or default.
> 
> Does it maybe mean directory? Probably not, cause there are files named
> "x.d" too.
> 
> 
> There is no information about this in http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
> 
> 
> Greetings
> David
>From my recollection, some programs can add a way to make configurations more
flexible. Instead of making 'my-config' which may contain many configuration
stanzas, they allow their stanzas to be seperated into individual files(eg.
option-one, option-two, etc.) and these individual files are put under a main
directory (eg. my-config.d). Thus:
my-config
becomes
my-config.d/option-one
my-config.d/option-two
...

So if you want to add more info to option-one, you can simply edit that one
file and avoid editing other options.

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