Coming in a month late on this, but I'm curious...

In article ,
Andy Burns   wrote:
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>the open square bracket is usually
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>/usr/bin/[
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>which might be a hard or soft link to /usr/bin/test
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I'd forgotten this convention, so I went and looked... and it's not!
I mean '[' is not a link, but an executable of its own, that's a different
length from /usr/bin/test.  This is true on the Pi, on my Linux laptop,
and even in Haiku. My question is, why?

 -- Pete --

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