Post #3377987
2026-04-26 09:55 UTC
@pjacock@fediscience.org @cks@mastodon.social Are INI files really "standard" in the UNIX world? I was under the impression that that was a convention from DOS. I am not aware of a really authoritative format (at least as conventional as command line arguments starting wiyh a dash), perhaps because for a long time many systems just used shell scripts to slurp out environmental variables out of a .foorc file?
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@pjacock@fediscience.org 2026-04-26 10:20
@pkal@social.sdfeu.org @cks@mastodon.social I think that’s true - perhaps more common on cross platform tools that UNIX first? I’ve seen a bunch that superficially at least look like INI files: https://docs.helix-editor.com/configuration.html Or key=value without sections: https://ghostty.org/docs/config
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@cesarb@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 14:34
@pkal@social.sdfeu.org @pjacock@fediscience.org @cks@mastodon.social In the FreeDesktop world (which is a subset of the Unix world), INI files are a standard, most commonly found as .desktop files.