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Dear Andreas:
Casper BodenCummins wrote:
> /usr/bin/[*
> This is junk. Blow it away.
DON'T DO IT!
Whew---sorry for shouting, but: This is indeed a file named ``['',
and it's executable (hence the ``*'' in what must be an ls -lF
listing).
``['' is a synonym for the ``test'' command, used in shell programming
constructs such as:
if [ -z "`hostname`" ]; then
hostconfig -p bootparams
fi
(from my rc.boot file [I'm using Solaris at the moment, not Linux :-( ]).
If you remove /bin/[, more stuff will break than you knew you had.
FWIW, ``/etc/passwd~'' is the name emacs gives to a backup file
when it's edited /etc/passwd. If you use emacs, that's where it came
from. Maybe other editors use the same convention?
For the rest, I can't help.
Sincerely yours,
Max Hyre
**>> What's all this garbage at the bottom of my message? It's a
security blanket for paranoids---ask me for details, or check
out
http://www.efh.org/pgp/pgpwork.html
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