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Linux: Wonder What rc Stands for?

"I wanted to understand where it came from." — Ginni Rometty

Let's try running the following command to list all hidden files ending with 'rc' in your home directory:

[user@personal ~]$ ls -la ~/.*rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user   412 Mar 25 11:15 /home/user/.bashrc
-rw------- 1 user user 24352 Apr  2 09:31 /home/user/.pinerc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user    22 Apr  1 19:05 /home/user/.vimrc

rc in these files stands for run commands.

Display line number by editing .vimrc file
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