Re: Why complicated directory structure in Linux

"Charlie Gibbs" (cgibbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
But anyway, to drift somewhat back on topic, I had never heard
of "man hier" before this thread either. There's a lot of good
information squirreled away in all sorts of places, and unfortunately
there are not enough pointers to it. Discussions like these will
have to serve for now.

Charlie's First Law of Documentation states: "If you can't find it
in the manual, it isn't documented." Note that this says nothing
about whether it's actually there, just whether you can find it -
which is why I see the decline of good indexes as a Bad Thing.

Often I find interesting things by looking at a certain man page
and then the list of associated entries turns up something useful.

Oddly in this case, the obvious "man bin" or something like that
doesn't turn up any pages. I kind of would have expected such
an entry, and then one would pick up the far more obscure "man hier"
through that.

I know I did some checking once before, because I was curious about
where things are supposed to go (which seems a better question than
"why complicated directory structure" since once you know what
goes where it seems pretty obvious to me that you then know that
it organizes things. And I don't recall finding anything local
that was well detailed.

Michael
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