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authorMaximilian Meister <mmeister@suse.de>2017-06-21 20:53:08 +0800
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for play-money and real-money. Unless you manually move accounts, Geth will by default correctly
separate the two networks and will not make any accounts available between them.*
+### Configuration
+
+As an alternative to passing the numerous flags to the `geth` binary, you can also pass a configuration file via:
+
+```
+$ geth --config /path/to/your_config.toml
+```
+
+To get an idea how the file should look like you can use the `dumpconfig` subcommand to export your existing configuration:
+
+```
+$ geth --your-favourite-flags dumpconfig
+```
+
+*Note: This works only with geth v1.6.0 and above*
+
#### Docker quick start
One of the quickest ways to get Ethereum up and running on your machine is by using Docker: