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But even /opt/local/bin (a construct I’ve never seen…) is just one letter longer than ‘Program Files’ – so at least they got the "not too long" bit right.

• mintplant 13y ago
  `Program Files` would actually be `C:\Program Files` (or the equivalent) if you're going for an absolute path. So `/opt/local/bin` comes out to two letters shorter.
  • claudius 13y ago
    Hence ‘even’, saying that even the full path is only one letter longer than the single directory name. :) Though, really, I have never seen /opt/local/bin – /usr/bin for package-manager owned stuff, /usr/local/bin for stuff not owned by the package manager and /opt/<Vendor> for weird things…
  • gnaritas 13y ago
    /opt/local/bin contains no spaces and thus doesn't require quoting or escaping and is thus more than two shorter in actual use.