[BusyBox] Possible bug
Torrey Hoffman
Torrey.Hoffman at myrio.com
Wed May 29 13:21:03 UTC 2002
Dave Nafranowicz wrote:
> I'm new to linux, yet alone busybox but I do not know why the
> first line in
> busybox.links
> is always /usr/bin/[ . Its like this right out of the tar ball and
Believe it or not, "[" is actually a program, also called "test".
The "[" name is so you can write expressions like
if [ -f foo.bar ]
then
...
If test is run as "[" then the last parameter needs to be "]".
See test.c in the sources for details, also "man test" for the
full GNU version.
Torrey Hoffman
thoffman at arnor.net
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