Rationale behind naming "dot d" (.d) directories

[Andre Stechert]

http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/auug-2003/

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at apple.com> wrote:
> The history was pretty simple.  When we had a file called /etc/foo, which we
> later to split into a directory full of individual one-entry-per-file
> records rather than the previous "all records in a single file", we would
> rename /etc/foo to /etc/foo.d to denote the switch.  Don't forget, /etc/rc
> used to be a single file...
>
> - Jordan
>
> On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the history behind the ".d" naming convention on some
>> directories?
>>
>> For example, /etc/rc.d or ${prefix}/etc/bash_completion.d. I seem to
>> understand how these directories are used, but what does the ".d" mean?
>>
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