On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:26:52 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote:

> > > 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:

I was disagreeing with the "cant be the same" comment. I know they are
different files, but the slightly different behaviour is insufficient
reason for that. Alexander asked why one was not a link to the other, I'd
like to know too, but this isn't the reason.


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Neil Bothwick

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