I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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Should be /etc or /usr/local/etc or /opt/etc or /opt/vendor/product/etc or ~/etc.

With some exceptions for historic compatibility (like ~/.bashrc)

The man page should specify where.

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