What does .d stand for?

Peasantoid · 2009-05-16 21:07:06

You know, all those directories — /etc/rc.d/, /etc/modprobe.d/, and so on. What does the .d stand for? I thought it meant "daemon", but that wouldn't apply to modprobe.d/.

kumyco · 2009-05-16 21:18:11

directory, maybe?

Peasantoid · 2009-05-16 21:21:01

But... But that's silly!

karol · 2009-05-17 00:54:53

I'd suggest 'd' for 'duh!' :-)

skottish · 2009-05-17 00:58:36

karol wrote:

I'd suggest 'd' for 'duh!' :-)

Does that imply that you know the answer? If so, please enlighten everyone else.

jb · 2009-05-17 01:05:54

It'll all make sense when /etc/{rc,modprobe}.e/ is released

bernarcher · 2009-05-17 01:09:27

Well, such a .d as in xxx.d really denotes some directory, meaning this directory being in some way connected to xxx's function. Such as e.g. /etc/profile.d contains additional scripts to be sourced from /etc/profile.

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-05-17 01:09:51)

Peasantoid · 2009-05-17 02:34:57

bernarcher wrote:

Well, such a .d as in xxx.d really denotes some directory, meaning this directory being in some way connected to xxx's function. Such as e.g. /etc/profile.d contains additional scripts to be sourced from /etc/profile.

Ohhhhh...thanks.

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