On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:24:23 +0100
Andy Burns  wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
> >  I wonder why they added those versions but I imagine they made [
> > different so that test didn't diverge from POSIX. More and more Linux is
> > not unix.
>
> Probably the last time I looked at '[' to see it was a link to 'test'
> would have been on a Apollo Domain workstation ...

 It's still that way on FreeBSD's latest release.

✓ steve@steve /bin $ ls -li [ test
819744 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  23672  5 Nov  2019 [
819744 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  23672  5 Nov  2019 test
✓ steve@steve /bin $ uname -a
FreeBSD steve 12.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC  amd64

 It's got a bit bigger over the years though.

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