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		pmoriarty on May 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin spl... "/sbin, /usr/sbin is for binaries that need root" No, they're for statically linked executables.

sph on May 11, 2022 [–]

The s stands for superuser, not static.

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