Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:00:16 -0600 From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: Khairuddin Abdul Ghani <abdulgha@usc.edu> Cc: Brian <bmohler@maxim.net>, exec@virtualmystic.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /bin/[ (was Re: mysterious shutdowns (cont.)) Message-ID: <20000526120016.B26132@socrates.i-pi.com> In-Reply-To: <009f01bfc731$4beea840$6f1f7d80@phoenix>; from abdulgha@usc.edu on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:41:52AM -0700 References: <009f01bfc731$4beea840$6f1f7d80@phoenix>
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On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:41:52AM -0700, Khairuddin Abdul Ghani wrote:
> Then I found this in /bin:
>
> -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 49016 May 17 20:21 [
>
> I doubt that should be there.. so I'm taking it off for the moment.
/bin/[ is a link to /bin/test so you can do stuff (in sh-like shells) like:
if [ "$a" -eq "$b" ]
then
foo
else
bar
fi
Removing it may break some shell scripts.
Kenneth
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