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Re: /usr/bin/[ ?



> I've just set up a laptop with Woody, going lovely, thanks to all of
> you.  I noticed while writing a shell script that searches some of my
> $PATH that I have a file /usr/bin/[ - is this normal?  I don't remeber
> seeing it on any of my other boxen, although I don't have access to
> them right now to check.  Looking at it, it's a binary file, so I
> don't think it's an artifact of a poorly written shell script I wrote
> (and I haven't done much else on this box).  I'm heavily firewalled,
> so I don't really think I've been hacked, it's just kind of odd.  I
> look forward to your answers.

It's a FAQ. Try

strings /usr/bin/[

or

dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[

to discover by yourself.



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