What do you call your /etc directory?

hazel · 07-30-2018, 08:51 AM

I usually think of mine as "ets".

jsbjsb001 · 07-30-2018, 08:55 AM

EDIT: I just noticed the poll questions & options and personally I'd go with "ee-tee-cee".

onebuck · 07-30-2018, 10:20 AM

Hi,

et-cee works for me.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

hazel · 07-30-2018, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by onebuck

et-cee works for me.

Oops! I didn't think of that one!

rtmistler · 07-30-2018, 10:31 AM

slash ... all lowercase ... ee tee cee

<pause>

slash ... all lowercase ... ee tee cee

<pause>

SLASH ... ALL LOWERCASE ... EE TEE CEE!

brianL · 07-30-2018, 10:59 AM

Mostly "ets", sometimes "etcetera". Might even try "ee tee cee" and "et cee". You know what they say about variety.

DavidMcCann · 07-30-2018, 11:14 AM

I've never thought about it: I don't usually get to talk about Linux. I think I'd say "etcetera" or "E T C".

hazel · 07-30-2018, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

I've never thought about it: I don't usually get to talk about Linux. I think I'd say "etcetera" or "E T C".

Don't you talk to yourself mentally when you're working things out?

fatmac · 07-30-2018, 11:33 AM

If I had to talk about it, I'd call it the 'exs' directory.

tshikose · 07-30-2018, 11:39 AM

ee-tee-cee

Even when I say it in French, which is my usual casual and work language.

ondoho · 08-01-2018, 07:47 AM

as most, ee-tee-cee (though in my mind i often use the german or finnish pronunciation) or etcetera.
voted ee-tee-cee though.

would be interesting to broaden the question to the other basic directories though i believe this has been done.

kilgoretrout · 08-01-2018, 08:33 AM

Either et-cee or etcetera.

hazel · 08-01-2018, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

would be interesting to broaden the question to the other basic directories though i believe this has been done.

Yes, /usr is another interesting one. But that would need a separate poll.

cynwulf · 08-02-2018, 08:55 AM

I'm somewhat surprised that so few here refer to it as "et cetera".

If you care to trawl through scanned documents from the '70s you will find /etc/ being described as "et cetera" in old UNIX manuals (from the Bell Labs era).

A more recent reference, but by no means "evidence":

https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard

Quote:

/etc/
Host-specific system-wide configuration files (from et cetera)

You probably won't find many (if any) references to the meaning in hier(7) man pages for various *nix like OS.

However several years ago, Peter H. Salus did receive an email from the late Dennis Ritchie confirming the "et cetera" meaning:

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?m...542561#c542641

keefaz · 08-02-2018, 09:18 AM

I find "et cetera" somewhat lowers the importance of /etc files content, for my part I would have named it /conf directory anyway