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I can think of many examples of this...

  • You can use the ip/if* commands to set your network interface in the here and now, but you can edit a file like /etc/network/interfaces to make the changes permanent.
  • You can set a bash environment variable by exporting it form the shell, or to make it permanent for your account, you can place the same command in .bashrc
  • In vim you can :set nowrap to make sure the text file you have open doesn't wrap; but you can also add the same command to .vimrc to keep this the same everytime you open vim.

So given these examples; what is this called?

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  • i'm not sure if it's called anyhow (i'm curious too though) , it's just referred to as 'make it permanent'
    – magor
    May 11, 2016 at 15:41
  • are you looking for a synonym for this action/activity, which is defined for another operating system ? If so, please indicate what other terms used for similar actions.
    – MelBurslan
    May 11, 2016 at 15:42
  • @MelBurslan I have no term, that's why I'm asking.
    – leeand00
    May 11, 2016 at 15:45
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    I would call it 'changing the configuration', 'changing a config file', 'modifying the default settings', or something along those lines. May 11, 2016 at 15:47
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    "transient" and "persistent" are words that immediately spring to mind—certainly I've seen "persistent" in documentation before (though as usual can't find any now). But they don't describe the concept itself, only actions within it, which I guess is what you're after?
    – forquare
    May 11, 2016 at 17:34

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The on-the-fly and permanent tags did existed, no such UNIX or Linux specific terms.

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  • Shouldn't there be tags like that on the Linux site?
    – leeand00
    May 11, 2016 at 16:34
  • @leeand00 You can create such tags if you have enough reputations (1500 i think) in Unix stack exchange.
    – 林果皞
    May 11, 2016 at 16:37
  • Busted at the moment. Anybody else?
    – leeand00
    May 11, 2016 at 16:37
  • @leeand00 meta.stackexchange.com/a/146950/248603
    – 林果皞
    May 11, 2016 at 16:43

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