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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by jmclnx on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @09:56AM (#31339998)
/usr/games existing allows people to find the most important binaries. If in */bin finding all of these could be difficult
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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by KerrAvon on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:23AM (#31341344)
We have a hierarchical filesystem. /usr/bin/games could be a thing.
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