Hi Greg. Greg Folkert, 09.05.2007 17:37: > 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.
That "[" and "test" actually do the same but "[" has a bit more code in it. (For checking for the closing "]" and for the output of "--help" and such, I guess.) I’m not sure what you are wondering now. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules
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