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From: js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 4 Jun 1997 15:43:47 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.93.970604151948.429u-100000@infernal>,
R!ch <richardt@clem> wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Christopher Eltschka wrote:
>
>> Steve Hathaway wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>>
>> > /bin
>> > /sbin
>> > /usr/bin
>> > /usr/sbin
>>
>> bin is binaries. But sbin?
>
>sbin == Statically (linked) binaries.
/sbin == Static binaries
/usr/sbin == System administration binaries
Joerg
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