As you suspected, /etc is from etcetera, unhelpfully named for "where everything else goes", and /usr was for "user applications". A lot of the detail on the history of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is …

What is the rationale for the "unix system resources", or /usr directory, as described here, which duplicates many of the directory names under the root directory /?

Feb 23, 2019 · /usr nowadays stands for User System Resources. This directory contains most commands and executables files, libraries and documentation. In the early days of Unix, it was the …

Nov 3, 2015 · 125 /usr/local/bin is for programs that a normal user may run. The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being …

To help me understand the usages between /home, /root, /usr/local, /usr/bin and /opt, I still have a question because I'm a little confused understanding the differences between each of them.

This is a part where the FHS is slightly self-contradictory, as /usr is defined to be read-only, but /usr/local needs to be read-write for local installation of software to succeed. The SVR4 file system standard, …

In the late 1970s, /usr/bin was integrated into the OS base distribution and people started to use /usr/local/bin for the purpose of the previous open /usr/bin.

Notice how /usr/local starts with backslash ? There's root directory from which you can access other directories; the image to keep in mind is the root directory is where root starts, and everything else is …

Nov 3, 2024 · I installed Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS several days ago from jammy and my software update app keeps jamming. I've run the commands sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt -fix --broken; …

#!/usr/bin/env bash #lends you some flexibility on different systems #!/usr/bin/bash #gives you explicit control on a given system of what executable is called In some situations, the first may be preferred …