>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\[' > I'd be inclined to call that a dpkg bug--it's not exactly intuitive > syntax.
It's not a dpkg issue, it's a shell issue. '[' is a shell metacharacter, and must therefore be esacaped when passed in an argument to *any* program, not just dpkg. Colm -- Colm Buckley BA BF | NewWorld Commerce, 44 Westland Row, Dublin 2, Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (business) +353 87 2469146 | whois cb3765 | http://www.tuatha.org/~colm/ For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]