Directory for executable files

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:40 AM Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> Robert Heller is correct: the "normal" place for binaries that only
> you use was ~/bin

I've forgotten why, but the freedesktop.org or gnome.org developers
added "~/.local/bin".

"/etc/skel/.profile" has

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi