Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

[Alexander Skwar]

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 11:00 schrieb ext Arnau Bria:
>
>> I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ...
>> [...]
>>
>> does any one know what could it be?¿
>
> It's the [ from "if [ condition ]; then ...", a shortcut for /usr/bin/test.

Nope, not correct.

[09:39:58 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ type [
[ is a shell builtin
[13:01:25 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ type test
test is a shell builtin

And actually /usr/bin/[ and /usr/bin/test aren't even the same:

[13:01:56 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ ls -la /usr/bin/{[,test}
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24852 27. Jun 09:34 /usr/bin/[
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22784 27. Jun 09:34 /usr/bin/test

I wonder where the differences are. I would've expected that test and [
were hardlinks.

Alexander Skwar
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