Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

On 2006-09-21, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
On 2006-09-21, spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
mydejamail@xxxxxxxxxxx did eloquently scribble:


Why is Linux directory structure laid out so, what is the rationale
Simple.
Everything has its place rather than dumping things randomly around the hard
disk.

bin = binary

Rather, as [usr]/bin also contains scripts:

But when invented, shells were not what they are today.

True, but there were utilities which could be called by the shell
to do almost anything a modern shell can do. The shell has been a
useful programming language for more than 25 years.

bin \'bin\ n : a box, crib, or enclosure used for storage

sbin = "system" binary (things required to get the machine booted up and
other things for system monitoring and maintenance)
etc...




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