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Re: Suspicious EXE named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?
Am 12.12.2010 12:29, schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> Hi Guys,
>
> The executable name is suspicious at best. Attempting to search
On the contrary, it's a standard utility mentioned in IEEE Std 1003.1.
> http://cygwin.com/packages/ results in an error "Invalid regular
> expression search string: `[.exe`". Quotes, double quotes, and back
> ticks do not help during the search.
Problem of the web interface.
> What is this program supposed to do?
The same as "test", except that "[" will expect and consume the closing bracket.
Used in scripting with shells that don't have [ built-in.
Details with "man test" ("man [" is missing on my Cygwin system), or in bash
with "help [".
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Matthias Andree
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