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• harchive /shar'ki:v/ n. [Unix and Usenet; from /bin/sh archive] A flattened representation of a set of one or more file
  with the unique property that it can be unflattened (the original files restored) by feeding it through a standard Unix shell...
• c file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n.
  Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• dot file: [UNIX] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on UNIX
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• UNIX Shell is the Best Fourth Generation Programming Language It is the UNIX shell that makes it possible to do applications in a small fraction of the code and time it takes in third generation languages.
  In the shell you process whole files at a time, instead of only a line at a time....
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• How many Unix hacks -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Let's see, can you use a shell script for that or does it need a C program?...
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• hebang /sh*-bang/ n. The character sequence "#!
  that frequently begins executable shell scripts under Unix....
• UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
  The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....