Re: /usr/bin/[ ?

[Pann McCuaig <pann@ourmanpann.com>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:32, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> 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.

pann@potato:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/[
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        17356 Sep 25  2000 /usr/bin/[

pann@potato:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/ | grep 17356
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        17356 Sep 25  2000 [
-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        17356 Sep 25  2000 test

pann@potato:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/test
shellutils: /usr/bin/test

It's a "synonym." I remember reading something once upon a time, but I
forget what.

Luck,
Pann
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