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  1. /etc - from an authoritative source on Define - /etc? · · Score: 1
    According to Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike:

    /etc (et cetera) we have also seen before. It contains various administrative files such as the password file and some system programs such as /etc/getty,....
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    The Unix Programming Environment , Prentise-Hall, Copyright 1984 by Bell Laboratories. Original hardback published in 1978. If you've never heard of Brian Kernighan, you need to study the history of "c" and Unix(tm).