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Good Locations For Scripts
The ~/bin directory is a good place to put scripts intended for personal use. If we write a script that everyone on a system is allowed to use, the traditional location is
/usr/local/bin. Scripts intended for use by the system administrator are often lo-
cated in /usr/local/sbin. In most cases, locally supplied software, whether scripts or compiled programs, should be placed in the /usr/local hierarchy and not in /bin or /usr/bin. These directories are specified by the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Stan- dard to contain only files supplied and maintained by the Linux distributor.