What is the "bin" folder for?

kuplo · 10-31-2005, 01:19 AM

Whenever I make a new user, in their home directory they have
1. bin
2. Documents
3. public_html
4 www (I put this in there and told people in a welcome.txt letter in their home directory that they should put their www documents in theree and they will show up when someone hits there domain.

But what is the bin, and what are the Documents folder used for generally?

Thanks

b0uncer · 10-31-2005, 01:23 AM

What distribution do you use? I haven't heard of a bin-folder inside a user's $HOME in any distro for a long time...anyway, I'd guess "bin" has the same meaning as /bin and /usr/bin - put binaries, program executables in there. no idea what it's for in $HOME but that's the best guess I can think of

Documents are for documents I guess..but what distribution do you use? How new is it?

jschiwal · 10-31-2005, 02:15 AM

The $HOME/bin directory is a convenient place for normal users to put their scripts or programs they wrote and compiled themselves.