Re: Strange file names

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Oki DZ (litbang@haltek.telkom.net.id):
> 
> Rob Mahurin wrote:
> 
> > 18:39 ~ $ which [
> > /usr/bin/[
> > 18:39 ~ $ type [
> > [ is a shell builtin
>                ^^^^^^^
> Hm... does it mean that "magic" is not quite magical...?

I thought "file" used magic; it says:

file /usr/bin/\[ 
/usr/bin/[: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
             dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

but I assume that the shell never bothers to run /usr/bin/[
(or /bin/echo etc.).

Cheers,

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