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Understanding Shell Initialization Files and User Profiles in Linux

Linux is a multi-user, time sharing system, implying that more than one user can log in and use a system. And system administrators have the task of managing various aspects of how different users can operate a system in terms of installing/updating/removing software, programs they can run, files they can view/edit and so on.

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