RE: question about /bin utils
Just like another responder, Andrew, I did a default basic install, and
there was no /bin/vi. It was in /usr/local/bin. THEN I replaced it
with vim.
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [mailto:shalehperry@attbi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:46 PM
To: Michael Marziani
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: question about /bin utils
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
> While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there is no
> /bin/vi at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a distro without a
> /bin/vi; how do I edit my files when my /usr partition crashes?
>
> Just curious if anyone has some insight into this. I would rather
> think that I made a mistake than debian did something wrong.
>
there is no /bin/vi because there is more than one vi (you installed
vim). The default install should have given you an editor in /bin.
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