Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?

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From: Grant Taylor
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:48

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On 06/06/2018 07:13 AM, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
> Having come from the "simpler" DOS world of total control, with maybe 
> just a path to c:\utils, I found it a puzzle that there were so many 
> places (yet only those ones!) to put executables under linux.

You can put executables in a LOT of places.  You just need to choose 
somewhere that's already in the PATH environment variable, or modify it 
to your liking.

I personally have ~/bin first in my path.

-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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