rc file

rc file

/R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but thisis commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to"run commands"] Script file containing startup instructionsfor an application program (or an entire operating system),usually a text file containing commands of the sort that mighthave been invoked manually once the system was running but areto be executed automatically each time the system starts up.See also dot file, profile (sense 1).