From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:25:15 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] test / [ In-Reply-To: <20071121135104.GB14401@anteil.com> References: <20071121135104.GB14401@anteil.com> Message-ID: <20071204232515.GZ67217@dereel.lemis.com> On Wednesday, 21 November 2007 at 8:51:04 -0500, Jim Capp wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:35:53PM +0000, Tim Bradshaw wrote: >> Does anyone know (remember) which Unices had .../bin/[ be a link >> to .../bin/test. I remember this being the case, but it is not so on >> any recent Solaris. It is the case on my Mac, so in at least one BSD >> derivative. I looked through a 7th edition tarball from the archive >> and it's not the case there. So my guess is that it is a BSDism, and >> it probably was the case in SunOS 4 and before, and I guess on at >> least 4.2BSD & later. > > I remember using /bin/[ in SCO Xenix and SCO Unix, and AT&T SYS III & > SYS V FreeBSD and NetBSD still have this link: $ ls -li /bin/[ /bin/test 683091 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 7460 Aug 19 2006 /bin/[ 683091 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 7460 Aug 19 2006 /bin/test I suppose OpenBSD does too, but I don't have a machine to check. Greg -- Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: