On Mon, October 8, 2007 2:39 pm, Steven W. Orr said: > > The history is that before [ was a builtin, it used to be an external > program. You could look on old unix boxen and there'd be a file called > test which had a hard link to a file called [. The ] at the end of the [ > was just syntactic sugar. There's no difference between >
Ah, that brings back memories. Back in 1983, when I was fairly new to Unix and had only recently been given root access at my college lab, I noticed that /bin was world writable, After correcting that, I looked in /bin for suspicious files, and that was the first time I ever noticed the file [ . It looked suspicious, so of course I deleted it. :-/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
