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		agumonkey on Aug 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles my de-obfuscation attempt: etc > e.t.c > edit to configure. the .rc suffix has a nice history btw

raylu on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

What's the history of that?

agumonkey on Aug 3, 2012 | [–]

Legacy of the runcom shell that let's you record sequence of commands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_commands

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