{"id":26467,"date":"2019-09-04T17:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26467"},"modified":"2019-09-04T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:14:52","slug":"run-commands-the-rc-in-bashrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/04\/run-commands-the-rc-in-bashrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Commands, the &lsquo;rc&rsquo; in &lsquo;.bashrc&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Run_commands\">Wikipedia<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=20853214\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Run_commands\"><p>Tom Van Vleck, a Multics engineer, has also reminisced about the extension rc: &ldquo;The idea of having the command processing shell be an ordinary slave program came from the Multics design, and a predecessor program on CTSS by Louis Pouzin called RUNCOM, the source of the &lsquo;.rc&rsquo; suffix on some Unix configuration files.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/fernando-corbat-rip\/\">Fernando Corbat&oacute;, RIP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/understanding-the-bin-sbin-usrbin-usrsbin-split\/\">Understanding the bin, sbin, usr\/bin, usr\/sbin Split<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia (via Hacker News): Tom Van Vleck, a Multics engineer, has also reminisced about the extension rc: &ldquo;The idea of having the command processing shell be an ordinary slave program came from the Multics design, and a predecessor program on CTSS by Louis Pouzin called RUNCOM, the source of the &lsquo;.rc&rsquo; suffix on some Unix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-09-04T21:14:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"42ace07b-7493-426a-a09d-2369727372c9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-09-04T21:14:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQqzge3STQmqgnSNpcnNyyQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[767,295,163],"class_list":["post-26467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bash","tag-history","tag-unix"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26468,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467\/revisions\/26468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}