[X-Unix] /bin strange directory ??

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Tue May 24 05:58:35 PDT 2005


Sometime in May Alexandre Gauthier assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| For random informative bits, [ is a shell builtin on bash. At least on
| my Linux workstation, my iBook is too far away for me to check, and i'm
| lazy.

Are you sure about this? I used to think it was built in also, but then I
never actually looked for [. The command 'which \[' shows me that it is in
/usr/bin/... I shall be a monkey's uncle.

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