Martin McCormick wrote:
> Other directories seem normal. What could possibly be going
> on here? Here is a listing of what is in bin. There is a file named
> [ but that is the only strange thing in the listing and it is not
> causing the behavior:
Well, I can't say why it is happening but I can tell you [ is not strange.
If anyone ever wanted to know why my answer to any shell script problem is
"program in python (or perl if you must)" need only look at man [.
[(1) User Commands [(1)
NAME
test - check file types and compare values
SYNOPSIS
test EXPRESSION
[ EXPRESSION ]
[ OPTION
DESCRIPTION
etc, etc, etc....
Yes, this is normal. This is how shell scripts a while back did tests.
Neat, in a scary "holy crap" sort of way. :)
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