On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:01 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > 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.
Yes, you hit exactly the wondering. Looks like Bob McGowan also wonders why. I was used to seeing it as a hardlink to test. He states it much better than I, on this subject. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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