On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, goldwyn rodrigues wrote:
Does anyone know what RC (in bashrc/mailrc/... ) means or how it originated? I mean, is it an acronym? If yes, what does it stand for?
'rc' stands for 'run control' and is a a convention adopted from older Unix systems.
For more info see this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s03.html