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 ## borgmatic options
 
-Here are all of the available borgmatic command-line options. This includes the separate options for
-each action sub-command:
+Here are all of the available borgmatic command-line options, including the
+separate options for each action sub-command. Note that most of the
+flags listed here do have equivalents in borgmatic's [configuration
+file](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/reference/configuration/).
 
 ```
 {% include borgmatic/command-line.txt %}