On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:26:53 +0000, Hagen Soengen wrote:
> > > I wonder where the differences are. I would've expected that test and
> > > [ were hardlinks.
> >
> > # /usr/bin/[
> > /usr/bin/[: missing ']'
> > # /usr/bin/test
> > <no output>
> > #
> >
> > You see? They cant be the same, because the closing "]" is needed
> > by /usr/bin[ and not by /usr/bin/test
>
> It's quite common for a program to change its behaviour according to the
> name used to run it. For example, zcat and gunzip are links to gzip, yet
> the three programs behave differently.
but this isn't the case:
$ sha1sum /usr/bin/\[ /usr/bin/test
2d3a938b84db7107e323ac85a9bf4f351721da7b /usr/bin/[
1b126dd3e41a2a9d4554879647f73fdf49d29479 /usr/bin/test
$ sha1sum /bin/zcat /bin/gzip /bin/gunzip
708011af43a41f6e3120e96eacb6ac4bba8717ee /bin/zcat
708011af43a41f6e3120e96eacb6ac4bba8717ee /bin/gzip
708011af43a41f6e3120e96eacb6ac4bba8717ee /bin/gunzip
[]'s
.m
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