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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:45:10 +0200
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unusual file:  /bin/[
Message-ID:  <51F671E6.7070708@cordula.ws>
In-Reply-To: <51F66D34.8010803@ifdnrg.com>
References:  <51F66D34.8010803@ifdnrg.com>

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On 07/29/13 15:25, Paul Macdonald wrote:
> Hi, I spotted what i'd call an unusual file in the basejail on a jail
> install, and have since seen this on other non jailed boxes.
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   11488 Jun 10 12:19 [

That's a perfectly valid UNIX program used in
(bourne) shell programming. It has been part of
BSD Unix for ages. And I really mean AGES!

> just checking thats all ok, and i've not been rooted!

Don't worry about it. It's perfectly legitimate.

-cpghost.

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