[ubuntu-uk] non-blooper: did not overwrote /usr/share/bin

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, ByteSoup wrote:
> sudo cp <filename> /usr/share/bin
> was /usr/share/bin normally a symlink to another directory anyway?

'/usr/share/bin' does not normally exist.  You have just created it (as a
file).  You can read about the purpose of '/usr/share/*' over in the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS):

  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA

  "The /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only
  architecture independent data files.".

Perhaps you were after '/usr/local/bin/' ?

	-Paul
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