ocr: /bin /bin is short for binaries" - or executables, where many essental sys- tem programs reside. Use ls -F /bin to list the files here. If you look down the list you may see a few commands that you recognize, such as cp, ls, and mV. These are the actual programs for these com- mands. When youi use the cp command, for example, you're running the program /bin/cp. Using ls -F,you'll see that most (if not all) of the files in /bin have an asterisk (***") appended to their filenames. Thisindicates that the files are executables, as described on pa ge 140. /dev The "files" in /dev are device files t ...
