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Post Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:59 pm   Post subject: What is /bin/[ for? Reply with quote Back to top  
In many unixes, there is a binary in /bin named [.

I can't seem to find any information about it. Does anyone know what its for?

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:03 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
never mind, FreeBSD had a man page for it. Its analogous to /bin/test

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[ hohlecow@munich ] ~
$> \[ -b /bin/ls \]
[ hohlecow@munich ] ~
$> echo $?
1

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