Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:45:56 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unusual file: /bin/[ Message-ID: <20130729184556.efa39d621af8a4f814dca04a@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <51F671E6.7070708@cordula.ws> References: <51F66D34.8010803@ifdnrg.com> <51F671E6.7070708@cordula.ws>
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:45:10 +0200 cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > On 07/29/13 15:25, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > Hi, I spotted what i'd call an unusual file in the basejail on a jail > > install, and have since seen this on other non jailed boxes. > > > > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 11488 Jun 10 12:19 [ > > That's a perfectly valid UNIX program used in > (bourne) shell programming. It has been part of > BSD Unix for ages. And I really mean AGES! <grin> I recall someone deciding that /bin/[ looked iffy and deleted it from a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 box busy serving connections to a bunch of dial up users. An amazing number of things stopped working. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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