Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> > 18:39 ~ $ which [
> > /usr/bin/[
> > 18:39 ~ $ type [
> > [ is a shell builtin
> ^^^^^^^
> Hm... does it mean that "magic" is not quite magical...?
I thought "file" used magic; it says:
file /usr/bin/\[
/usr/bin/[: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
but I assume that the shell never bothers to run /usr/bin/[
(or /bin/echo etc.).
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