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/etc is the directory where names start to get confusing. /etc gets its name from the earliest Unixes and it was literally "et cetera" because it was the dumping ground for system files administrators were not sure where else to put.

Nowadays, it would be more appropriate to say that etc stands for "Everything to configure," [...]

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