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		emillon on Jan 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin sp... So, /usr really means "user", and the "Unix System Resources" acronym was put together afterwards. Interesting, thank you !

tomprince on Jan 28, 2012 | [–]

I don't think I have ever heard that acronym before. I don't think it is common usage.

prewett on Jan 29, 2012 | | [–]

I've heard "user shared resources" which is similar. I'm glad "usr" meant "user", though, I can go back to naming my home directories on Windows "usr" instead of "home" :)

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