How do you pronunce /usr?I found in the net that someone reads it user... but, for what I know, this directory is not related to the user. The meaning of the acronym is Unix specific (or system) resources.How can we better read it, making it easy to immediately understand the sense of the scope of such folder?
Pronunciation for /usr directory
directory
In the original Unix implementations, /usr used to contain the user home directories, e.g. instead of /home/user, you would have /usr/user. The original intention was for the directory to be called user with the connotation everything user related.Since then, the role of /usr has narrowed. In current Unix-like operating systems, /usr still tends to contain user-land programs and data (as opposed to 'system' programs and data), although in many cases the distinction between for instance /usr/bin and /bin isn't perhaps as strong as it used to be.Perhaps the pronunciation 'user' is more understandable given this background. A backronym some people prefer is 'User System Resources', but 'user' is still more common.