Re: Strange /usr/bin file
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:06:15PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 2:52 PM, Mirco Piccin <pictux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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).
This should be in an FAQ somewhere. I see it about once a year.
Presumably the OP has just started in Lenny or he would have seen it in
Etch, Sarge, Woody, Potato... Probably back to either 4.3 BSD or the
origional UNIX.
Doug.
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