On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Manish Chakravarty
<manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was doing some work on Solaris express build 94.
> I see that there are two bash binaries included. ( no , neither of
> them is symlink )
>
> # ls -la /bin/bash
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       710024 Jul 11 13:46 /bin/bash
> # ls -la /usr/bin/bash
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       710024 Jul 11 13:46 /usr/bin/bash
>
[...]>
> what is the reason behind this?

   /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin for backwards compatibility.
   ls -l /bin
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug  1 23:23 /bin -> ./usr/bin

Regards,
Moinak.

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