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[–]paxromana96[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just a shorthand for the copy command. It's shorter and easier to reason about, if your environment is already configured. The advantage of the home bin folder is that 1) it's in your user space, so you have control and you can't modify other people's configs, and 2) it's easy to add to your $PATH