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• eaper: n. A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• prowler n. [Unix] A daemon that is run periodically (typically once a week) to seek out and erase core file
  uncate administrative logfiles, nuke lost+found directories, and otherwise clean up the cruft that tends to pile up in the corners of a file system....
• prowler: [UNIX] n. A {daemon} that is run periodically (typically once a week) to seek out and erase {core} file
  uncate administrative logfiles, nuke `lost+found' directories, and otherwise clean up the {cruft} that tends to pile up in the corners of a file system....
• GFR /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• kulker n. Syn. prowler.
• 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....
• Making files is easy under the UNIX operating system.
  Therefore, users tend to create numerous files using large amounts of file space....