Why does my ~/.local/bin contain a bunch of python executables?
Why does my ~/.local/bin contain a bunch of python executables?
I was just about to try to compile btop with cmake, which gave me some errors about python. which cmake
returned ~/.local/bin/cmake
which made me curious.
After listing ~/.local/bin I found several files there, which all have a similar script within them.
from import main
#!/usr/bin/python3.11 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import re import sys from cmake import main if __name__ == '__main__': sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0]) sys.exit(main())
Have I caught some sort of malware/virus? Are these save to remove?
I know that pip installs --user
binaries into ~/.local/bin, but after inspecting it, there are just these
pip list --user Package Version ------------ ------- configparser 6.0.0 protonup 0.1.5 razer-cli 2.2.0