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.
For user-specific config files, aren’t they all supposed to be in
~/.config
these days? I’ve never heard of software using~/etc
.