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This story isn’t about the difference between bin and sbin. edit: Clearly I'm missing something in the linked article because I'm being downvoted. Could someon

• mehrdadn 7y ago
  Well, it kind of is: "The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) ...".
  • smcl 7y ago
    It really isn't. The story explains why some directories in / have an analogous version under /usr. If reading this article informed you about the difference between bin and sbin then ... I'm really not sure what to tell you because the article doesn't contain anything about this.
    • JdeBP 7y ago
      One can learn a modicum about the differences among lbin, mbin, rbin, bin, 5bin, sbin, amdahl/bin, ucb, sun/bin, ccs/bin, local/bin, xpg4/bin, xpg6/bin, and some others at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/448799/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/448799/5132 .
• usr1106 7y ago
  The headline promises it, but the story doesn't tell. I don't know what the correct historical explanation is. "s" like in super user, system program or statically linked or is there yet another theory?
  • smcl 7y ago
    The headline is unfortunately a little ambiguous. We could clarify it by introducing some extra punctuation and modifying it slightly to make it clear the "split" in question is between "/" and "/usr": "Understanding the split between (/bin, /sbin, /lib) and (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib)" Not perfect but maybe clearer