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• 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)....
• 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})....
• 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....
• 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....
• link farm: [UNIX] n. A directory tree that contains many links to files in a master directory tree of files.
  Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree --- for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files....
• link farm n. [Unix] A directory tree that contains many links to files in a master directory tree of files.
  Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree -- for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files....
• plan file n. [Unix] On systems that support finger, the `.
  plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered....
• uke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....