Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Tom Grove wrote:
Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody
days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few years. I
recently installed Testing (Lenny) and see the left bracket in my
/usr/bin directory and do not know what it is. When I ls -al it I get:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24752 2007-01-30 13:51 /usr/bin/[
This leads me to believe that it was installed with the base system or
some package because I just installed the system earlier this week. Any
help is much appreciated. Thanks.
I also have this file, and when I type man [, the manual for test shows
up. Now why this is I have no idea. If I try the command (since it is
executable) I get : bash: [: missing `]'
This is beyond my comprehension.
Joe
Now I get it, it's as said before "test" and it's used to test something.
It is used mostly for bash scripting
e.g. if [`command`=="outputwewant"]
do something
fi
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