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The term ''rc'' stands for the phrase "run commands". It is used for any file that contains startup information for a command. It is believed to have originated somewhere in 1965 from a runcom facility from the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). From Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie: "There was a facility that would execute a bunch of commands stored in a file; it was called runcom for 'run commands', and the file began to be called 'a runcom'. rc in Unix is a fossil from that usage."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? - Knowledge Base )〕 Tom Van Vleck, a Multics engineer, has also reminisced about the extension rc: "The idea of having the command processing shell be an ordinary slave program came from the Multics design, and a predecessor program on CTSS by Louis Pouzin called RUNCOM, the source of the '.rc' suffix on some Unix configuration files."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unix and Multics )〕 This is also the origin of the name of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs shell by Tom Duff, the rc shell. It is called 'rc' because the main job of a shell is to 'run commands'. While not historically precise, rc may also be expanded as "run control", because an rc file controls how a program runs. For instance, the editor Vim looks for and reads the contents of the .vimrc file to determine its initial configuration. In ''The Art of Unix Programming'', Eric S. Raymond consistently refers to rc files as "run-control" files. == See also == * Configuration file 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Run commands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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