Re: Strange /usr/bin file

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:06:15PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008 2:52 PM, Mirco Piccin <pictux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [

Who created this file? What does it do?

It's (mostly) a synonym for test. See the manpage for test(1).

This should be in an FAQ somewhere. I see it about once a year.
Presumably the OP has just started in Lenny or he would have seen it in
Etch, Sarge, Woody, Potato... Probably back to either 4.3 BSD or the
origional UNIX.

Doug.



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