Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:19:24 -0700 schrieb mike rosset <schizoid29@gmail.com>:
I agree with this /usr/local/ is a pretty common location to install system wide software and imo /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin should be included in the default path. FHS covers this and GNU conf also defaults to this.
However in Judd's case I would think ~/bin would be better suited for user scripts unless he needs to use them system wide ie. as another user. since its much easier to edit save the files and does not require root privileges to modify
You're not quite right. Both /usr and /usr/local are system wide, but /usr is for packages which are installed by a package manager and /usr/local is for self written user scripts. It's just that user scripts can't be overwritten by a package. Heiko