Saturday, 8 June 2013

/usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin on Linux

/usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin on Linux

Why are there so many places to put a binary in Linux? There are atleast these five:
/bin/
/sbin/
/usr/bin/
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/local/sbin/
And on my office box, I do not have write permissions to some of these.
What type of binary goes into which of these bins?

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