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• profile: n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior.
  Used to avoid {hardcoded} choices (see also {dot file}, {rc file})....
• dot file: [UNIX] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on UNIX
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• dot file [Unix] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on Unix
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• c 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'] n.
  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....
• c file /R-C fi:l/ n. [Unix: from `runcom files' on the CTSS system 1962-63
  via the startup script /etc/rc] 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....
• cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
  [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• cat [from `catenate' via Unix cat(1)] vt. 1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause.
  2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully....