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Macha on April 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

/usr/bin is under the control of your package manager _ unless you're building and installing packages for all your adhoc scripts, aren't you worried about name collisions?

yissp on April 5, 2020 [–]

I know Arch's package manager, at least, will refuse to install a package if it would overwrite an existing file.

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