Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> writes: > On 2022-10-12, Michael F. Stemper <michael.stem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/10/2022 07.20, Chris Green wrote: >>> ... and rm will just about always be in /usr/bin. >> >> On two different versions of Ubuntu, it's in /bin. > > It will almost always be in /bin in any Unix or Unix-like system, > because it's one of the fundamental utilities that may be vital in > fixing the system when it's booted in single-user mode and /usr may > not be available. Also, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard *requires* > it to be in /bin. > > Having said that, nothing requires it not to be elsewhere *as well*, > and in Ubuntu and other Linux systems it is in /usr/bin too. And because > PATH for non-root users will usually contain /usr/bin before /bin (or > indeed may not contain /bin at all), 'command -v rm' or 'which rm' will > usually list the version of rm that is in /usr/bin. > > e.g. on Amazon Linux: > > $ which rm > /usr/bin/rm > $ sudo which rm > /bin/rm
Have some major Linux distributions not done usrmerge yet? For any that have, /bin is a symbolic link to /usr/bin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
