F8devel - user configuration storage locations

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:56 AM +0300 6/14/07, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>Hi Arthur Pemberton!
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:46:51PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote next:
>
>> > I think this should be tidied up by creating a single directory at the
>> > users home folder to store all setting/configs that apps make.
>> > - The folder should not be hidden.
>>
>>  I would hate this even more
>+1
>
>> > - easily move/copy all user configs to backup or a different machine
>>  cp -a ~/.*
>Not simple. If you do that you'll try to copy over the parent tree due to
>'..' (that is satisfy your code) represents parent and '.' represents
>current folder.

Not simple, but how about:

    cp -a ~/.[!.]* .
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