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Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?



Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org> writes:

> At 1155211042 past the epoch, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>> dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[ (two backslashes) will do it.
>
> Urgh nasty... I wonder if there's a bug to be filed there.

I think so.  It doesn't look like sane behaviour, even if you quote
it:

$ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/['
dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found.
$ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\['
coreutils: /usr/bin/[

Hmm.


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