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Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symboliclinks to directories)


>>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?


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