On Monday 10 September 2007 11:44:24 Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hello, > When I do my own release I noticed that a file called [ is created in the > /bin directory: Here is an "ls -la" of /bin, see the first file: > $ ll /bin/ > total 16080 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1.0K May 18 16:33 . > drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 512B May 18 17:00 .. > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root bin 89.8K May 18 16:33 [
This file is a hardlink. $ man [ TEST(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual TEST(1) NAME test - condition evaluation utility SYNOPSIS test expression [ expression ] ...... $ ls -il /bin/\[ /bin/test 1869 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root bin 79136 Aug 23 18:10 /bin/[ 1869 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root bin 79136 Aug 23 18:10 /bin/test -> see, same inode -- Antoine