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Can someone tell me of a sensible fairly standard place to put scripts that a number of users will need on an Ubuntu system?
Andy
Posted 2010-09-14T16:14:05.830
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Where should I put system-wide scripts in *nix system?
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Well, your tags include the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard so that should give you some guidance. I would recommend /usr/local/bin.
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Posted 2010-09-14T16:14:05.830
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I never put scripts that I write in /usr/bin. Either /usr/local/bin or, preferrably, /opt/local/bin. Virtually nothing's going to collide with or stomp on scripts in the latter.
JustinShoffstall
Posted 2010-09-14T16:14:05.830
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I had a look there and couldn't find anything useful. Through quick manual inspection of
/usr/binI couldn't find any examples that weren't binary or symlinks, which made me think that maybe it wasn't normal to put scripts themselves inbindirectories. But if you recommend it that's enough for me! – Andy – 2010-09-14T16:27:08.333@Andy: There's a lot of stuff in
/usr/bin. All that matters is that they should be (usefully) executable; it doesn't matter whether they're implemented as scripts or binaries. If you're curious, you can runfile /usr/bin/*to see what kinds of files you have in/usr/binon your machine. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-09-14T18:26:42.033@Gilles Thanks, that makes sense. And I'd never heard of
fileso thanks again for that! – Andy – 2010-09-15T08:35:25.390