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bf(apt-config) is an internal program used by various portions of the APT
-suite to provide consistent configuability. It accesses the main configuarion
+suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses the main configuarion
file /etc/apt/apt.conf in a manner that is easy to use by scripted
applications.
em(command) is one of:
itemize(
it() shell
+ it() dump
)
Unless the -h, or --help option is given one of the above commands
This will set the shell environment variable $OPTS to the value of
MyApp::Options with a default of -f.
+If the configuration item to retrieve is prefixed with a / then it will
+be retrieved using filename mode which prepends base paths.
+
+dit(bf(dump))
+Just show the contents of the configuration space.
+
enddit()
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