• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    it is where all the binaries (programs) live (that are not system critical, those would be in sbin). so whenever you execute ls? it is actually /usr/bin/ls and so on and so forth.

    then there is the “man” command. basically a manual. you can use it to find out stuff about other commands and such by just typing “man [command]” for example “man ls”

    edit: this knowledge has NOT been acquired by RTFM but rather by watching YouTube

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      22 hours ago

      Thanks that’s a massive help, I’m usually just searching around GitHub, forums and YouTube for info, literally never used the man command.

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        21 hours ago

        you may or may not need to install it first, depending on wether your distro ships it by default. for how to install it you should open your distros wiki in your browser