On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

Does anyone know the history behind the ".d" naming convention on some directories?

For example, /etc/rc.d or ${prefix}/etc/bash_completion.d. I seem to understand how these directories are used, but what does the ".d" mean?


simplistic answer:  .d == directory
;)

William Davis
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