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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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