On Wed, Dec 24, 2014, at 04:30 PM, Vivek Vinod wrote: > I asked the exact same thing elsewhere... > > http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=8778 >
I also tried man "[" before I emailed, then couldn't find the source file in cvs - though that was my stupidity. Generally I never noticed the file on Linux since /bin is really messy there (4537 entries in my other box) with only 42 entries on OpenBSD it just stood out :) The replies here pointed the exact reason for which I thank the people who took the time to respond. Since the first reply from Otto I learned that man "\[" (escaped [) properly leads to the test man page. I also found the Makefile which creates the file in /bin/test. Guess it's never too late to learn and I should try harder before hitting the list. Regards, Adam > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. > Original Message > From: Otto Moerbeek > Sent: Wednesday 24 December 2014 19:33 > To: Adam Wolk > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Weird executable in /bin/ - i386 snapshots Dec 10 > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Adam Wolk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I was doing a cursory look around my i386 laptop installation of OpenBSD > > snapshot from Dec 10 obtained from ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/ and noticed an > > unusual executable /bin/[ > > > > It has the same timestamp as all other binaries installed with the Dec > > 10 snapshot. > > Does anyone know if this is normal and what this binary does or where it > > could came from? > > It's not weird and has been in Unix for ages. It's is an alternative > name for test(1). man '[' and google will tell you it's use. > > -Otto > > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Adam Wolk > > [email protected]
