Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:24:23 +0100
> Andy Burns  wrote:
>> 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.

Are they copies or hardlinks? Try: find /bin -samefile /bin/test
On MacOS, derived from BSD, they're copies. Probably easier to distribute,
and the size doesn't matter anymore.

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