rc file
/R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly
believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file
containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire
operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that
might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be
executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file,
profile (sense 1).
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