Vanessa Murdock <vanessa01075 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > I downloaded and installed cygwin. I did an ls -la on > the /usr/bin/ directory and found a binary called > "[.exe". Is this a legitimate utility (and what does > it do)?
Yes it is legitimate - it is part of coreutils. For what it does, try "/bin/[ --help". Your shell probably also provides it as a builtin. It is an alias for test. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
