Subject: Re: /bin/[ ?
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: John Clark <j1clark@ucsd.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/13/2002 22:22:20
Am Mittwoch den, 13. M=E4rz 2002, um 19:52, schrieb Herb Peyerl:

> ibarra@webmail.hawk.com (Michael C. Ibarra)  wrote:
>>> I was looking around /bin to see what's big and small, and came=20
>>> across an odd file called '['.  Would someone kindly tell me why =
it's=20
>>> there?
>>
>> Do man \[ as you need the escape the special character
>
> One of my customers decided I was charging them too much. So they
> brought in another consultant and as part of cleaning the machines,
> he removed /bin/[ on all the machines on the network.

Hope they got their money's worth...

Then again, very early in my unix experience, I did do an mkfs on
the /usr distribution disk... back in the days of disk packs, and, well
I just got confused as to which pack was in...