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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:35 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> I have been checking my system for some deep seated problems and in the |
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> process, ran across the fact that "equery files sys-apps/coreutils-8.7" |
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> shows a file included called "/usr/bin/[" - thats right, left square |
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> bracket! |
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> Is that a bug or if real, what would you use it for? It doesnt seem to |
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> be on the file system ... |
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> moriah ~ # /usr/bin/[ |
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> /usr/bin/[: missing `]' |
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> moriah ~ # |
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> doesnt show much! |
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Relax. It's an alias for "test", so instead of using |
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if test blah; then |
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... |
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fi |
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in bash, you can use |
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if [ blah ]; then |
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... |
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fi |
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Just do /usr/bin/[ --help to get an idea. It has been there since I |
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started using Linux, if I remember correctly, many years ago. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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