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/bin
Return to linux bin directory, bin, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
/bin is a standard (as specified in the FHS) high level directory where command line tools that are essential for the operation of the computer are kept. Its name is short for binaries. Compare with /sbin and /usr .
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- Snippet from Wikipedia: Unix filesystem
In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts of the system to be designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969.
As in other operating systems, the filesystem provides information storage and retrieval, and one of several forms of interprocess communication, in that the many small programs that traditionally form a Unix system can store information in files so that other programs can read them, although pipes complemented it in this role starting with the Third Edition. Also, the filesystem provides access to other resources through so-called device files that are entry points to terminals, printers, and mice.
The rest of this article uses Unix as a generic name to refer to both the original Unix operating system and its many workalikes.