Thank you all for the info!     

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Didier Wiroth
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> On Behalf Of Paul de Weerd
> Sent: 10 September 2007 13:12
> To: Didier Wiroth
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: /bin file called [
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:44:24AM +0200, 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
> | -r-xr-xr-x   2 root  bin    89.8K May 18 16:33 [
> | -r-xr-xr-x   2 root  bin    89.8K May 18 16:33 test
>                ^--> Note the linkcount...
> 
> Try the following : ls -li /bin/{[,test}
> 
> You'll see that [ and test have the same inode number. This is because
> they are the same program. Try reading the manpage for [(1) ('man [').
> 
> | This file is not present in the official base4x.tgz file 
> (from ftp or
> cd)....
> | I noticed that this file was created on my i386 and my 
> amd64 platforms ....
> | Has anyone else noticed that?

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