[clue-tech] Odd file

[Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier]

>    I'm getting back into Linux after a few years away, & last night I
> noticed something really odd on my new Gentoo box - while going through
> the files on my system in preparation for installing AIDE, I found an
> executable file named '[' (that's just [ without the quotes) in my /bin
> directory.  It has a size of 20652, ownership of root/root, & shows only
> one link to it.  (To add to my unease, there appears to be no man page
> entries for this executable.)

This is actually the test command - the syntax is:

test [expression] or just [expression]

There's a good tutorial on this here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dulaney_test.html

Best,

Zonker
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Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
Editorial Director - Linux.com
xonker at gmail.com
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