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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com (Michael Wang)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   what is the command named "[" in /bin directory?
Message-ID:  <199906210117.VAA04758@cicgload-fs1-p.tech.cicg.ml.com>

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Dear FreeBSDers:

What is the command named "[" in /bin as shown below?
FreeBSD mike.dream-color.com 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE 
Thanks.

Michael Wang
http://www.mindspring.com/~mwang

bash# pwd
/bin

bash# ls -ls ./[
46 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  46600 May 17 23:37 ./[

bash# what ./\[
./[:
         Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994

bash# strings ./\[ 
$Id: strcmp.S,v 1.4 1997/02/22 14:59:12 peter Exp $


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