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

[ByteSoup]

On 26/07/10 16:37, Paul Sladen wrote:
> 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
>    
Ha ha! Thanks to everyone who replied... your right! I was trying to put 
the shell script into the common directory thats in your normal path as 
a user /usr/local/bin. I blame turning 40 this year :-P

Anyway the "cp" command wont allow you to overwrite a directory with a 
file normally will it? I thought Id just missed the trailing space and 
begun to worry.

Thanks to everyone who replied :-)

-Mark
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