From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 12 16: 4:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A552A37B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA06022; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:04:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <200011130004.SAA06022@mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:03:21 -0500 Reply-To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" X-Mailer: BluePrint Software Works PMMail2000 with Bandit Tagger98 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Tag: Bandit Tagger98 - Registered to : KE4PYM Subject: What is "["? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rooting around (no pun intended) my 4.0 system today I happened upon a file called "[" in /bin. Not knowing what this file was I deleted it. Rule number one: Dont delete that in which you do not know. Rename it. Lesson learned. Soon after my network died. I rebooted the system. Lots of bad things (tm) happened. Nothing would start up. So I logged in and did a man [ and found it was a test utility. Then I did a locate test |more Found /bin/test. Copied test to [ and rebooted. Everything is happy. What, exactly, is "[". Why is it on my system as "["? Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: OS/2 just broke all the Windows! PGP Public Key Fingerprint: E1FD 1327 D9D6 3D9A 6D5E 21CF 902D 41FC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message