getconf(1)

getconf1

Query system configuration variables (sysconf)

Usage

getconf -a

getconf [-v specification] system_var

getconf [-v specification] path_var pathname

Overview

-a

        Displays all configuration variables for the current system
        and their values.

-v

        Indicate the specification and version for which to obtain
        configuration variables.

system_var

        A system configuration variable, as defined by sysconf(3) or
        confstr(3).

path_var

        A system configuration variable as defined by pathconf(3). This
        must be used with a pathname.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0–12
  6. 13

Author

getconf was written by Roland McGrath for the GNU C Library

This man page was written by Ben Collins <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

From libc-bin 2.41-12+deb13u4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.