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Move it to a separate page, with a massive great list of all the misc utils. Not a great documentation page, but equivalent to what we had before, and it can be improved in future. Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> Helps: #3037
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Title: Miscellaneous Utilities
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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
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# Miscellaneous Utilities
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These are portable utility functions.
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## Application Name and Environment
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* [func@GLib.get_application_name]
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* [func@GLib.set_application_name]
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* [func@GLib.get_prgname]
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* [func@GLib.set_prgname]
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* [func@GLib.get_environ]
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* [func@GLib.environ_getenv]
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* [func@GLib.environ_setenv]
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* [func@GLib.environ_unsetenv]
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* [func@GLib.getenv]
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* [func@GLib.setenv]
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* [func@GLib.unsetenv]
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* [func@GLib.listenv]
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* [func@GLib.get_user_name]
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* [func@GLib.get_real_name]
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## System Directories
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* [func@GLib.get_user_cache_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_user_data_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_user_config_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_user_state_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_user_runtime_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_user_special_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_system_data_dirs]
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* [func@GLib.get_system_config_dirs]
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* [func@GLib.reload_user_special_dirs_cache]
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## OS Info
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Information about the current OS can be retrieved by calling
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[func@GLib.get_os_info] and passing it one of the following keys (this list may
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grow in future):
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_NAME`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_PRETTY_NAME`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_VERSION`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_VERSION_CODENAME`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_VERSION_ID`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_ID`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_HOME_URL`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_DOCUMENTATION_URL`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_SUPPORT_URL`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_BUG_REPORT_URL`
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* `G_OS_INFO_KEY_PRIVACY_POLICY_URL`
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## Paths
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* [func@GLib.get_host_name]
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* [func@GLib.get_home_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_tmp_dir]
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* [func@GLib.get_current_dir]
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* [func@GLib.canonicalize_filename]
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* [func@GLib.path_is_absolute]
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* [func@GLib.path_skip_root]
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* [func@GLib.path_get_basename]
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* [func@GLib.path_get_dirname]
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* [func@GLib.build_filename]
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* [func@GLib.build_filenamev]
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* [func@GLib.build_filename_valist]
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* [func@GLib.build_path]
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* [func@GLib.build_pathv]
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## Size Formatting
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* [func@GLib.format_size]
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* [func@GLib.format_size_full]
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* [func@GLib.format_size_for_display]
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## Executables
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* [func@GLib.find_program_in_path]
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## Bit Manipulation
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* [func@GLib.bit_nth_lsf]
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* [func@GLib.bit_nth_msf]
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* [func@GLib.bit_storage]
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## Primes
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* [func@GLib.spaced_primes_closest]
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## Process Lifetime
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* [func@GLib.abort]
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## Debug
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* [func@GLib.parse_debug_string]
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## Sorting
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* [func@GLib.qsort_with_data]
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## Pointers
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* [func@GLib.nullify_pointer]
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## Deprecated API
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* [type@GLib.VoidFunc]
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* [type@GLib.FreeFunc]
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* [func@GLib.atexit]
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