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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by Avshalom on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @01:22PM (#6361453)
Its more like

  ls /bin/ls
you can simply cat cat or ls ls by cd-ing to /bin first... with the caveat that some distros have moved them to /usr/bin or somewhere, hence the 'which'
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Re:(λove (print (eval (read)))) by moomin on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @04:41PM (#6369917)
Exactly. File systems resemble modern namespaces, not namespacing by type. You can put an executable and a data file in the same directory, or not. Your choice.
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