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RE: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)


----Original Message----
>From: NNK_ml
>Sent: 18 April 2005 18:18

>>> Well, /bin is the bin, that's a bit like /dev/null, but /usr/bin is the
>>> user bin, that's where we throw all the user's files away when we want
>>> to delete them.  Then there's the user's local bin, which is a bit like
>>> the recycle bin in windows.
> 
> So /usr/bin is where you dump entire user directories, but their local
> bin is where files go when the user deletes their own stuff?


  I refer you to the last sentence of my earlier post!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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