On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:18:56AM -0400, hpknight wrote: > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20092 Jun 2 17:05 /usr/bin/test > > looks like someone might have copied/renamed it on accident in a shell > script.
No, it is supposed to be there. It lets you do things like [ foo ] on the command line, where [ is the command, which parses it's argument list as 'foo ]'. It's done simply to be more aesthetically pleasing than using the word test. You'll note that 'man [' works fine too, and gives you the docs for test. If you do an 'ls -i' on /usr/bin/[ and /usr/bin/test you'll see that they're hardlinks to the same file. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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