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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by monocasa on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:58AM (#31340915) 

    $ file /sbin/* | grep "dynamically linked" | wc -l
    325

    $ file /sbin/* | grep -i "static" | wc -l
    0
On Ubuntu focal, but Red Hat is similar.
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Re:Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) by amaranth on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:02PM (#31342745)
Pretty sure on both of those /sbin is just a symlink to /usr/sbin. If the static thing was ever true I suppose once you've moved everything in to /usr you wouldn't bother anymore.
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