On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:25:14PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > 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.
You lost me. Were you wondering what you where thinking!? Or why you weren't sure what you were wondering? Wondrous wonders... HELP!!! > Looks like Bob McGowan also wonders why. I was used to seeing it as a > hardlink to test. This is open source, so why wonder? The source will tell. And as far as I can see, Mathias Brodala is spot on... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. -- Harry Truman
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