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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The /bin dir on any Linux install is the recycle bin. Save space by regularly deleting its contents

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Surprisingly I have not heard this before

sudo rm -rf /bin/*
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I legitimately did this unprompted the first time I installed Linux on a computer when I was in my late teens.

I fully believed that /bin/ was actually just a bin. I didn't know it stood for binary or whatever

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