Name
apt-config
Synopsis
apt-config [options
] shellargs
apt-config [options
] dump
An internal program for querying configuration information.
Commands
-
dump
Display the contents of the configuration space.
-
shell
Access the configuration information from a shell script. The arguments are in pairs, specifying the name of a shell variable and a configuration value to query. The value may be postfixed with
/
x
, where x is one of the following letters:-
b
Return true or false.
-
d
Return directories.
-
f
Return filenames.
-
i
Return an integer.
-
Options
The common options listed earlier are accepted.
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