basic operations

[Welty, Richard]

Craig White writes:
>On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:33 +0200, Phet Whore Meyer wrote:
>> Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one query 
>> for now:
>> In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program Files', 
>> in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called?
>----
>/usr/bin

er, sort of, but not really.

for files that are a core part of a distribution, well, yes.
outside of that, you're more likely to see files being added to /usr/local/bin
for very sound reasons.

and then, of course, there are /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, and a few others.
for software that presumes a solaris model, you may see /opt as the root
location, although this isn't very common in linux environments (however,
/opt is a standard location for add on systems for Mac OS X users running
darwinports, but then, that's not linux).

this is only for executables that are supposed to be runnable from the
shell; you may also find executables in other locations (/usr/lib,
/usr/libexec, etc.) that aren't supposed to be directly invoked by
users.

richard