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		Lio on Jan 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, comman... Except if it's a parts bin maybe. ;)

asxd on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

It's an odd coincidence that shortening "binaries" to "bin" makes sense in this way, but you're right, /bin is a literally a bin to put your binaries.

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