I'm not so old :-D
A little magic for someone who is not good in Unix scripting and think,that [ is only mistake :-)

Thanks all for answer and more light on it for me

Almir Karic wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:22:32PM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
Hi all,

have you same "problem" ? Look at $ls -lF /bin
There is a [* and test* ,both binaries do the same and cmp(1) says,that they are same.

Am I missing something or it's bug?

you are missing the lesson in history in unix shell scripting :-)

they are not doubled, they are hard links:

$ ls -i /bin/{test,[} 25985 /bin/[ 25985 /bin/test

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