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From: Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:15:52
Message-Id: 44C5DF26.8010104@vista-express.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] strange [ file by Arnau Bria
1 Arnau Bria wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ...
5 >
6 > #file "["
7 > [: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
8 > GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
9 > 2.4.1, stripped
10 >
11 > in I can find things like:
12 > [...]
13 > -ot does not accept -l
14 > %s: unary operator expected
15 > %s: binary operator expected
16 > ')' expected, found %s
17 > ')' expected
18 > test and/or [
19 > Report bugs to <%s>.
20 > bug-coreutils at gnu.org/usr/share/localeMatthew BradburnKevin
21 > Braunsdorf5.94GNU coreutilsmissing `]' Try `%s --help' for more
22 > information. Usage: test EXPRESSION
23 > or: test
24 > or: [ EXPRESSION ]
25 > or: [ ]
26 > or: [ OPTION
27 > Exit with the status determined by EXPRESSION.
28 > [...]
29 >
30 > does any one know what could it be?¿
31 > thanks in advance.
32 >
33
34 This may help a little:
35
36 > root@smoker / # equery belongs [
37 > [ Searching for file(s) [ in *... ]
38 > sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/[)
39 > root@smoker / #
40
41 It's part of coreutils. At least someone isn't putting something on
42 your system you don't know about.
43
44 It is weird that they named it that though.
45
46 Dale
47 :-) :-)
48
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