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On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:26:53 +0000, Hagen Soengen wrote: |
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> > > I wonder where the differences are. I would've expected that test and |
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> > > [ were hardlinks. |
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> > |
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> > # /usr/bin/[ |
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> > /usr/bin/[: missing ']' |
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> > # /usr/bin/test |
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> > <no output> |
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> > # |
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> > |
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> > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is needed |
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> > by /usr/bin[ and not by /usr/bin/test |
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> |
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> It's quite common for a program to change its behaviour according to the |
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> name used to run it. For example, zcat and gunzip are links to gzip, yet |
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> the three programs behave differently. |
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but this isn't the case: |
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$ sha1sum /usr/bin/\[ /usr/bin/test |
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2d3a938b84db7107e323ac85a9bf4f351721da7b /usr/bin/[ |
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1b126dd3e41a2a9d4554879647f73fdf49d29479 /usr/bin/test |
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$ sha1sum /bin/zcat /bin/gzip /bin/gunzip |
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708011af43a41f6e3120e96eacb6ac4bba8717ee /bin/zcat |
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708011af43a41f6e3120e96eacb6ac4bba8717ee /bin/gzip |
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708011af43a41f6e3120e96eacb6ac4bba8717ee /bin/gunzip |
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[]'s |
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.m |
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