On 12 December 2010 05:01, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > The executable name is suspicious at best. Attempting to search > http://cygwin.com/packages/ results in an error "Invalid regular > expression search string: `<left bracket>.exe`". Quotes, double quotes, and > back > ticks do not help during the search. > > What is this program supposed to do?
It's a synonym for the 'test' program for evaluating conditional expressions, which allows stuff like this: if [ $FOO = bar ]; then ... The '[' in there invokes '[.exe'. Well, except that any shell that cares about performance has a builtin for this to avoid forking a new process for every conditional. See also 'man test'. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
