Re: files without package

[Max Hyre <mhyre@dasw.com>]

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   Dear Andreas:

Casper BodenCummins wrote:

>  /usr/bin/[*
>  This is junk. Blow it away.

DON'T DO IT!

Whew---sorry for shouting, but:  This is indeed a file named ``['',
and it's executable (hence the ``*'' in what must be an ls -lF
listing).

``['' is a synonym for the ``test'' command, used in shell programming
constructs such as:

    if [ -z "`hostname`" ]; then
	hostconfig -p bootparams
    fi

(from my rc.boot file [I'm using Solaris at the moment, not Linux :-( ]).

   If you remove /bin/[, more stuff will break than you knew you had.

   FWIW, ``/etc/passwd~'' is the name emacs gives to a backup file
when it's edited /etc/passwd.  If you use emacs, that's where it came
from.  Maybe other editors use the same convention?

   For the rest, I can't help.


			Sincerely yours,

				Max Hyre

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