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		monocasa on May 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin spl... `$ file /sbin/* \| grep "dynamically linked" \| wc -l 325 $ file /sbin/* \| grep -i "static" \| wc -l 0` On Ubuntu focal, but Red Hat is similar.

amaranth on May 11, 2022 [–]

Pretty sure on both of those /sbin is just a symlink to /usr/sbin. If the static thing was ever true I suppose once you've moved everything in to /usr you wouldn't bother anymore.

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