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Re: Strange /usr/bin file



Quoth Kushal Kumaran:
> On Feb 11, 2008 2:52 PM, Mirco Piccin <pictux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder:
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root       34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [
> >
> > Who created this file? What does it do?
> >
> 
> It's (mostly) a synonym for test.  See the manpage for test(1).

Yes, I think it's there to provide compatibility for shells that do not have the
'[' builtin. But that's only a wild guess.

Anyways, no reason to be afraid, I have it, too.

Aleks

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