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Re: '/usr/bin/['
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 2 22:24:08 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 22:23:20 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Piet Barber wrote:
> All right...
>
> Could someone please 'splain to me what the program '/usr/bin/[' is?
>
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It runs the 'test' program:
# ls -l /usr/bin/[
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 2 22:02 /usr/bin/[ ->
test
See man test
You can type this, for example:
if [ -f /tmp/junk ]
then
echo There is a junk file in /tmp
fi
Or you can type
if test -f /tmp/junk
then
echo There is a junk file in /tmp
fi
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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