Debian:bin Directory

From Linux 101, The beginner's guide to all things Linux.

/bin contains commands that may be used by both the system administrator and by users, but which are required when no other filesystems are mounted (e.g. in single user mode). It may also contain commands which are used indirectly by scripts. The binaries located within /bin are important and should be limited in order to keep the root partition as small as possible.

A few examples of programs located in /bin are:

• cat
• chgrp
• chmod
• chown
• cp
• date
• dd
• df
• dmesg
• echo
• ed
• false
• gzip
• kill
• ln
• login
• ls
• mkdir
• mknod
• more
• mount
• mv
• ps
• pwd
• rm
• rmdir
• sed
• setserial
• sh
• stty
• su
• sync
• tar
• true
• umount
• uname

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