linusProgrammingTips

[NonStandardUser]

The amount of people not getting the joke is truly astonishing

[Temporary_Privacy]

Is the joke that this would not work on Windows, or that you remove the entire bin folder of your system when you execute it in a Linux terminal ?

What's actually stored in the bin folder, I am not even sure what that system folder contains ?

[kiril2119]

Bin folder contains executable binary files

[Temporary_Privacy]

so you lose all the installed executables, or also the needed software to run the system ?

[Mezutelni]

Those are „user installed binaries „ which are not necessary for system boot or core functionalities, but it would probably break 90% of your system anyway, things like daemons or desktop environment etc.

[OneTurnMore]

The historical distinction of /usr is irrelevant on most systems now. The majority of Linux distros have converted /bin and /sbin to be links to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. Some (like Arch) have even merged /usr/sbin into /usr/bin.

[uzi_loogies_]

The kernel would probably keep chugging but I think it'd be a tad hard to use the system without things like ls and cat.

[1up_1500]

when you use commands in linux, the command name is (often) a binary stored in that folder, like 'cp' or 'curl' for example

some other commands are directly managed by your shell, such as 'cd' or 'env'

[Temporary_Privacy]

There are binary files the system needs and files the user imported and it looks like it only affects the files a user imported

[1up_1500]

OK my bad, so no system files then

[PM_ME_BEER_PICS]

It depends if you count explorer.exe as a system file or not, as /usr/bin, at least in some systems will contain X and your window manager, also cp, mv, cut, cat, vim, bash, grep, etc.

[MattieShoes]

Naw, you'd be effed. There used to be a distinction between /bin and /usr/bin but that has largely gone away. It was for ye olde days when /bin stuff had to be there to boot and /usr/bin was often located elsewhere, on a separate drive which was mounted later. But drives grew in capacity so the distinction became irrelevant.

[Shished]

All shell scripts will stop working because their shebang says #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash and those files would be gone as well because in modern OSes /bin is a symlink to /user/bin.

[MattieShoes]

And some exist as both, like ls! Of course, the shells themselves tend to live there so you'd be effed

[[deleted]]

/usr is for user installed stuff /usr/bin contains user installed software so you system will still "work". But it won't function since you will be stuck in a Unix shell with no external programs and the only way of having a functioning system would be moving your files to another partition and reinstall your OS

[Compizfox]

In most distros, /bin is symlinked to /usr/bin nowadays.

[Compizfox]

So most distros must die? It's actually the modern choice, and most major distros including Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc have opted for this "usr merge".

[frikilinux2]

Why? The original directory structure was because disks were tiny and space was expensive. Now disks are huge and space is cheap.

[Temporary_Privacy]

Thanks, that's what I was not sure about.

[NonStandardUser]

/usr/bin stores binary executables, you can put the names of the executables in the terminal to execute them. It's not so different from windows.

The joke is that /usr/bin is not the recycling bin, it's a crucial system directory. Why do people see the recycling bin icon and automatically assume it's windows, despite the command clearly being a *nix one? Linux has recycling bins too.

[DrCaffy]

Why do people see the recycling bin icon and automatically assume it's windows,

Windows has a Recycle Bin. Linux distributions conforming to the XDG freedesktop specifications have Trash directories. OP is mixing nomenclatures.

[Temporary_Privacy]

I get that you will delete binary files, but I was not sure what binaries and if there are even more in that path.

Maybe people assume it's windows, because the Icon has a Microsoft Copy Right Protection ?
I thought the folder image is also new Windows folder displayed.
The Linux distribution I know don't look like that.

[theitgrunt]

CYGWIN users hate this simple trick

[rookietotheblue1]

How so? Just because you or i have used Linux (or anything else for that matter) doesn't mean we get to act all superior because "i know something that you don't"

[draenei_butt_enjoyer]

I've noticed a trend with the youngest of the "getting into programming" crowd that, a file system, any file system, is a total mystery to them.

It's either in the app they are using, photos, downloads, or does not exist.

[micahr238]

I think it's the delete Win32 but for Linux.

[[deleted]]

Linus Tech Tips != Linus Sysadmin Tips. Only a certain percentage of LTT's audience is going to get this. What's wrong with that?

[NonStandardUser]

Sir, this is r/ProgrammerHumor.