Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:03:21 -0500 From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@mcs.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: What is "["? Message-ID: <200011130004.SAA06022@mailbox.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011121835160.23858-100000@galaga.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
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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
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