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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by perfunctory on Saturday May 07, 2016 @09:49AM (#11649573)
Excuse me my naivety but I don't really understand what you mean by "This is not an issue and hasn't been for quite a long time". When I do ls / on any of my machines I still see /bin /usr/bin and all the rest.
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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by gqg on Saturday May 07, 2016 @10:07AM (#11649635)
They are all symlinked - just different names for exactly the same directory in the file system. If you compare the contents, you will find they are identical.

Edit: Nevermind, I am wrong :)

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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (2010) by tremon on Saturday May 07, 2016 @10:09AM (#11649646) 

  $ ls -1 /bin | wc -l
  127
  $ ls -1 /usr/bin | wc -l
  2271
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