On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 21:07 +0800, Wang Xu wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:01:50AM -0400, 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. > > it is test(1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/\[
dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file /usr/bin/\[
/usr/bin/[: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which test
/usr/bin/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/\[ /usr/bin/test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24984 2006-08-16 07:52 /usr/bin/[
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23024 2006-08-16 07:52 /usr/bin/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/\[
/usr/bin/[: missing `]'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/test
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Hmmm. I wonder what this all means.
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