Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

4.8.3 /usr/share/misc : Miscellaneous architecture-independent data

This directory contains miscellaneous architecture-independent files which don't require a separate subdirectory under /usr/share. It is a required directory under /usr/share.

The following files, if present, should be located under /usr/share/misc:

Other (application-specific) files may appear here, but a distributor may place them in /usr/lib at their discretion. Some such files include:


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