- No additional whitespace surrounds the dot or equals sign
- characters. In a multiple-value item (a list), the values are
- separated by semicolon characters.
+ With the `--database` option, updates configuration metadata
+ stored in the database, rather than the default (text)
+ configuration file.
+
+.. option:: list
+
+ Every configuration item is printed to stdout, each on a separate
+ line of the form::
+
+ section.item=value
+
+ No additional whitespace surrounds the dot or equals sign
+ characters. In a multiple-value item (a list), the values are
+ separated by semicolon characters.