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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 7/25/06, Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... |
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> Perfectly normal. It is a program that implements bash style tests |
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Not *bash* style tests. bash doesn't have much to do with this. |
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> for script environments that don't normally do them. For example: |
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> if [ -f /etc/passwd ] ; then |
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> echo "/etc/passwd exists and is a regular file" |
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> fi |
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> Notice the "[" after the "if".... |
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However, [ is normally a shell builtin and thus /usr/bin/[ isn't |
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executed. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. |
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Teach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner. |
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- Calvin Keegan |
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