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Re: Wierd file name?



-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        20092 Jun  2 17:05 /usr/bin/test

looks like someone might have copied/renamed it on accident in a shell
script.

-hpknight

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, lists wrote:

> I'm not sure where to ask this question, but here it goes.
> 
> I was looking in /usr/bin ans see a file named:
> 
> jeff@raptor:/usr/bin$ ls -la [
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        20092 Jun  2 17:05 [
> 
> jeff@raptor:/usr/bin$ ldd [
>     libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40020000)
>     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> jeff@raptor:/usr/bin$ ./[ --help
> 
> Usage: ./[ EXPRESSION
>   or:  [ EXPRESSION ]
>   or:  ./[ OPTION
> Exit with the status determined by EXPRESSION.
> 
>   --help      display this help and exit
>   --version   output version information and exit
> 
> EXPRESSION is true or false and sets exit status.  It is one of:
> 
>   ( EXPRESSION )               EXPRESSION is true
>   ! EXPRESSION                 EXPRESSION is false
>   EXPRESSION1 -a EXPRESSION2   both EXPRESSION1 and EXPRESSION2 are 
> true  EXPRESSION1 -o EXPRESSION2   either EXPRESSION1 or EXPRESSION2 is true
>   [-n] STRING          the length of STRING is nonzero
>   -z STRING            the length of STRING is zero
>   STRING1 = STRING2    the strings are equal
>   STRING1 != STRING2   the strings are not equal
> 
>   INTEGER1 -eq INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is equal to INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -ge INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is greater than or equal to INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -gt INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is greater than INTEGER2
> jeff@raptor:/usr/bin$ ./[ --help
> Usage: ./[ EXPRESSION
>   or:  [ EXPRESSION ]
>   or:  ./[ OPTION
> Exit with the status determined by EXPRESSION.
> 
>   --help      display this help and exit
>   --version   output version information and exit
> 
> EXPRESSION is true or false and sets exit status.  It is one of:
> 
>   ( EXPRESSION )               EXPRESSION is true
>   ! EXPRESSION                 EXPRESSION is false
>   EXPRESSION1 -a EXPRESSION2   both EXPRESSION1 and EXPRESSION2 are 
> true  EXPRESSION1 -o EXPRESSION2   either EXPRESSION1 or EXPRESSION2 is true
>   [-n] STRING          the length of STRING is nonzero
>   -z STRING            the length of STRING is zero
>   STRING1 = STRING2    the strings are equal
>   STRING1 != STRING2   the strings are not equal
> 
>   INTEGER1 -eq INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is equal to INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -ge INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is greater than or equal to INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -gt INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is greater than INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -le INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is less than or equal to INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -lt INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is less than INTEGER2
>   INTEGER1 -ne INTEGER2   INTEGER1 is not equal to INTEGER2
> 
>   FILE1 -ef FILE2   FILE1 and FILE2 have the same device and inode numbers
>   FILE1 -nt FILE2   FILE1 is newer (modification date) than FILE2
>   FILE1 -ot FILE2   FILE1 is older than FILE2
> 
>   -b FILE     FILE exists and is block special
>   -c FILE     FILE exists and is character special
>   -d FILE     FILE exists and is a directory
>   -e FILE     FILE exists
>   -f FILE     FILE exists and is a regular file
>   -g FILE     FILE exists and is set-group-ID
>   -h FILE     FILE exists and is a symbolic link (same as -L)
>   -G FILE     FILE exists and is owned by the effective group ID
>   -k FILE     FILE exists and has its sticky bit set
>   -L FILE     FILE exists and is a symbolic link (same as -h)
>   -O FILE     FILE exists and is owned by the effective user ID
>   -p FILE     FILE exists and is a named pipe
>   -r FILE     FILE exists and is readable
>   -s FILE     FILE exists and has a size greater than zero
>   -S FILE     FILE exists and is a socket
>   -t [FD]     file descriptor FD (stdout by default) is opened on a terminal
>   -u FILE     FILE exists and its set-user-ID bit is set
>   -w FILE     FILE exists and is writable
>   -x FILE     FILE exists and is executable
> 
> Beware that parentheses need to be escaped (e.g., by backslashes) for 
> shells.
> INTEGER may also be -l STRING, which evaluates to the length of STRING.
> 
> Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>.
> jeff@raptor:/usr/bin$
> 
> 
> anybody know is this a valid file, and if so, what is it?
> 
> 
> 
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