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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:00:16 -0600
From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
To: Khairuddin Abdul Ghani <abdulgha@usc.edu>
Cc: Brian <bmohler@maxim.net>, exec@virtualmystic.com,
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Subject: /bin/[ (was Re: mysterious shutdowns (cont.))
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On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:41:52AM -0700, Khairuddin Abdul Ghani wrote:
> Then I found this in /bin:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      49016 May 17 20:21 [
> 
> I doubt that should be there.. so I'm taking it off for the moment.

/bin/[ is a link to /bin/test so you can do stuff (in sh-like shells) like:

if [ "$a" -eq "$b" ]
then
    foo
else
    bar
fi

Removing it may break some shell scripts.

Kenneth


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