[lug] hack or just error?

[Jeffrey Haemer]

Try this.  It's fun.

    /usr/bin/[ --help

And, of course ":" is also a command, but

    : --help

 is no help at all.  You need to say

     help :

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Kenneth D Weinert
<kenw at quarter-flash.com>wrote:

> On 05/25/2010 08:40 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote:
> > Rofl! What a terrible name for a file...I guess they had too much beer
> > that night :P
>
> Well, the ':' is what threw me - I guess I read it wrong.
>
> It's actually why you can write:
>
> if [ -z $VAR ]
>
> instead of
>
> if test -z $VAR
>
> It's been that way for a *really* long time.
>
>
> > D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
> > ...
> > On Wed, 26 May 2010 01:51:44 +0000 (UTC) stimits at comcast.net wrote: >
> > I'm trying to find out how an old system (FC5) got a file > in /usr/bin,
> > '[:' It's the test command. It's in the 'coreutils' package. rpm -qf
> > /usr/bin/\[ kevin
> >
> >
> >
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