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,
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>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

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