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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:43:59 +0000 (UTC)
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Vanessa Murdock <vanessa01075 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> I downloaded and installed cygwin.  I did an ls -la on
> the /usr/bin/ directory and found a binary called
> "[.exe".  Is this a legitimate utility (and what does
> it do)?  

Yes it is legitimate - it is part of coreutils.  For what
it does, try "/bin/[ --help".  Your shell probably also
provides it as a builtin.  It is an alias for test.

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer



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