Regular people would consider me Extremely Computer, but compared to many of the people here I feel Barely Computer for not knowing the difference between /bin and /sbin.
The distinction is kind of pedantic. It’s “superuser binaries” (sbin) and “binaries” (bin). Since both are usually on your executable path (see $PATH) anyway, the distinction is kinda/sorta moot these days. If you need root (or run sudo) to make a binary do anything useful, it’s probably sitting in /sbin. I know not of what brought about that original distinction, or what actual utility it serves/served.
Regular people would consider me Extremely Computer, but compared to many of the people here I feel Barely Computer for not knowing the difference between /bin and /sbin.
The distinction is kind of pedantic. It’s “superuser binaries” (sbin) and “binaries” (bin). Since both are usually on your executable path (see
$PATH) anyway, the distinction is kinda/sorta moot these days. If you need root (or run sudo) to make a binary do anything useful, it’s probably sitting in /sbin. I know not of what brought about that original distinction, or what actual utility it serves/served.You can type
man hierinto a terminal to get a description of what’s what.You fool! /bin and /sbin have already been replaced by /usr/bin and /usr/sbin! What an buffonish mistake!
Truly the solution is NixOS, we must all embrace the loving embrace of /nix/store.
And I’m here thinking they’re all fancy thrash bags for binary blobs. So Boomer! We should rename them to /woke/lgbtqe (the E stands for elf)