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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 04:47 PM

seconway@mts.net (Sean) writes:
> I found these three directories for the Bourne shell on an HPUX 11.0
> sever. I was aware of different shells (korn,bash,c-shell). I was not
> aware of different shells within the same group. I am assuming since
> the file size is different one contains more than the other.
> Does anyone have any insight?
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 425984 Apr 9 2002 /sbin/sh
> -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 217088 Apr 9 2002 /bin/sh
> -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 217088 Apr 9 2002 /usr/bin/sh

- /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sh have the same size because they are the same
binary: /bin is a symbolic link to /usr/bin,
- /sbin/sh is bigger than /usr/bin/sh because it's compiled statically.

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Dido

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 04:47 PM

Did0 (d1d0@nowhere.here) wrote:
: - /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sh have the same size because they are the same
: binary: /bin is a symbolic link to /usr/bin,

Yes, if you use ll -i, you would see the same inode number.

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