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Just a side note but /usr does not actually stand for /user (although I often pronounce it that way when speaking). It's actually an initialism standing for UNI
by Locke1689 17y ago
Just a side note but /usr does not actually stand for /user (although I often pronounce it that way when speaking). It's actually an initialism standing for UNIX System Resources.
- tvon 17y agoFunny, I don't think I've ever written it that way before (/user/local), though I do say it that way. At the time of that writing I was highly caffeinated, which might have something to do with it.
- doty 17y agoYou sure that isn't just a backronym? It seems highly unlikely given its peers (/etc, /lib, /bin, none of which are acronyms) and given the system it lives in, which I don't think used the word "resources" anywhere else. When I google I mainly find drive-by assertions that it means "UNIX System Resources" (and sometimes "User Specific Resources"). The closest I can find to something real is: http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html
- miles 17y agohttp://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Unix_directory_structure http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Unix_directory_structure /usr -- originally the directory holding user home directories, its use has changed, and it now holds executables, libraries, and shared resources that are not system critical: X11, KDE, PERL, etc. (The name "Unix System Resources" is a post hoc backronym.)