[lug] hack or just error?

[Kenneth D Weinert]

On 05/25/2010 07:51 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm trying to find out how an old system (FC5) got a file in /usr/bin, '[:'
>

It's suspiciously like the [ / test equivalence, but you already knew that.

> There is a good chance this was a botched command line from long ago
> redirecting to create this. Removal of the file causes tcsh and csh to
> complain upon startup that there is no such file.

This sort of indicates that it's a file put there on purpose, not a 
botched command line.

> I cannot find anything
> in any of the shell init scripts in individual home directories, nor in
> the /etc ones. Google advanced search is useless, it ignores these
> punctuation characters and gives all answers with that requirement
> excluded. Has anyone heard of a hack like this?

Here's where I stop being any help at all (not that I was much help 
before this :)

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