Whether file or directory, convention now dictates that the location of the run-control information has the
same basename as the executable that reads it. An older convention still common among system
programs uses the executable's name with the suffix ‘rc’ for ‘run control’[99]. Thus, if you write a
program called ‘seekstuff’ that has both site-wide and user-specific configuration, an experienced Unix
user would expect to find the former at /etc/seekstuff and the latter at .seekstuff in the user's
home directory; but it would be unsurprising if the locations were /etc/seekstuffrc and
.seekstuffrc, especially if seekstuff were a system utility of some sort.
Definition: rc file: 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.
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在TheFreeDictionary:rc file中,说到:
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).