From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 18:17:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wfdutil3gw.ml.com (wfdutil3f01.ml.com [206.3.74.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C8215170 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com) Received: from ewfdav02.ml.com ([199.201.57.18]) by wfdutil3gw.ml.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/MLgwo-4.03) with SMTP id VAA26229 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:17:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 172.23.143.207 by ewfdav02.ml.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:17:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Received: by cicgload-fs1-p.tech.cicg.ml.com (8.8.8+Sun/ML55SMX-1.02) id VAA04758; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:17:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:17:50 -0400 (EDT) From: mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com (Michael Wang) Message-Id: <199906210117.VAA04758@cicgload-fs1-p.tech.cicg.ml.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: what is the command named "[" in /bin directory? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 $ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message