On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:35 PM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > I have been checking my system for some deep seated problems and in the > process, ran across the fact that "equery files sys-apps/coreutils-8.7" > shows a file included called "/usr/bin/[" - thats right, left square > bracket! > > Is that a bug or if real, what would you use it for? It doesnt seem to > be on the file system ... > > moriah ~ # /usr/bin/[ > /usr/bin/[: missing `]' > moriah ~ # > > doesnt show much!
Relax. It's an alias for "test", so instead of using if test blah; then ... fi in bash, you can use if [ blah ]; then ... fi Just do /usr/bin/[ --help to get an idea. It has been there since I started using Linux, if I remember correctly, many years ago. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
