# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-07-21 12:11:10
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=461.msg4709#msg4709

I think there's no such thing a a "typical" settings file on Linux! @p{par}

I just did a quick survey of 20 .conf files in /etc on my debian system, and found: @p{brk}
 1 file used "key value" @p{brk}
 5 used "key=value"  (actually, a couple were  "key = value", allowing whitespace around the "=") @p{brk}
 14 did their own thing. @p{par}

The 14 that did their own thing were all over the map; from one-value-per-line to "key:value" to full-blown XML.  # is @p{brk}
the universal comment character in the Linux world. @p{par}

My vote would be for: @p{par}

# comment @p{brk}
key1=value1 @p{par}