Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 11:00 schrieb ext Arnau Bria: > >> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... >> [...] >> >> does any one know what could it be?¿ > > It's the [ from "if [ condition ]; then ...", a shortcut for /usr/bin/test.
Nope, not correct. [09:39:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ type [ [ is a shell builtin [13:01:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ type test test is a shell builtin And actually /usr/bin/[ and /usr/bin/test aren't even the same: [13:01:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ls -la /usr/bin/{[,test} -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24852 27. Jun 09:34 /usr/bin/[ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22784 27. Jun 09:34 /usr/bin/test I wonder where the differences are. I would've expected that test and [ were hardlinks. Alexander Skwar -- Is it 1974? What's for SUPPER? Can I spend my COLLEGE FUND in one wild afternoon?? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list