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Its more like ls /bin/ls you can simply cat cat or ls ls by cd-ing to /bin first... with the caveat that some distros have moved them to /usr/bin or somewhe

Its more like ls /bin/ls you can simply cat cat or ls ls by cd-ing to /bin first... with the caveat that some distros have moved them to /usr/bin or somewhere, hence the 'which'

moomin 13y ago
Exactly. File systems resemble modern namespaces, not namespacing by type. You can put an executable and a data file in the same directory, or not. Your choice.