Interesting. I see that man calls it test(1) but searching the online man pages for "[" doesn't find it.
>On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:00:59PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: >> Why is there a file called "[" in the /bin directory of my generic 3.8 >> build? >> >> 144 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root bin 72128 Sep 10 15:18 [ >> > >Ever wondered why: > >if [ -x some/file ] >then > echo "file executable" >fi > >works in /bin/sh? > >-- >Brett Lymn Tim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com