Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[ (two backslashes) will do it.
Jon Dowland writes:
> Urgh nasty... I wonder if there's a bug to be filed there.
Roger Leigh writes:
> 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/[
It's perfectly sane behavior, though not properly documented. 'dpkg -S'
accepts regular expressions. Try
dpkg -S '/bin/[a-z]s'
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John Hasler
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