Posts Tagged ‘duh’

*nix and the /usr directory

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

/usr is short for “User”, right? How come it doesn’t have user related stuff in it?

I’ve wondered this for a long time. Today I discovered while searching for some unrelated information that it in fact stands for “Unix System Resources”.

Next they’ll tell me that /etc doesn’t stand for “Eggs Toast and Coffee”. Sheesh!