Quoth Kushal Kumaran: > On Feb 11, 2008 2:52 PM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [ > > > > Who created this file? What does it do? > > > > It's (mostly) a synonym for test. See the manpage for test(1).
Yes, I think it's there to provide compatibility for shells that do not have the '[' builtin. But that's only a wild guess. Anyways, no reason to be afraid, I have it, too. Aleks
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