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I learned about 16 years ago on a Solaris course that /usr wasn't "user", I still say "user", but I'm happy to see the information spreading that that isn't what it actually is.
I learned that just now.
It's going to be TOUGH to mentally replace.
Wow, what an odd coincidence.
I always thought it was user and never questioned it. Yeah man there's shared libraries in there for all the users, so it's user. This makes more sense now.
usr did originally mean user and held user data.
Pretty sure this is a bacronym
I used to pronounce it like yuzr, knowing that it wasn't user, but not knowing what it was.
Now I have better context. Maybe I'll go with U.S.R.If you want to confuse people... I pronounce /etc as "ets", but one of my coworkers recently called it "slash e t c" and I had to ask him to repeat it a couple times before I figured out what he meant...
Well, considering that I am with coworkers who don't remember when to and not to put the '/' at the start of the file path (despite me explaining it to them multiple times), "slash e t c" is probably the better way.