Documentation issue? Default path to Filebeat configuration (/filebeat.yml)

Elastic Stack Beats
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(Filebeat version 1.3.1)

In Filebeat command line help (filebeat --help),
the default configuration file path is indicated as "/filebeat.yml".

However, practically testing this shows that it actually looks for the configuration file in "./filebeat.yml" (relative to cwd ("./[...]") where the command is invoked).

Is this a valid issue?

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Looks like it! Can you raise it here - https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues?

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Follow up issue can be found here: https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/2654