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What is /usr/bin/[ and how do I use it?

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I was looking at coreutils and found this as one of the files included as part of coreutils: . What is and what does it do? It is an executable. I just don't know what it does or how to use it. When I try to run it, I think it is defaulting to the bash built in line expansion. Instead of actually r…

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$ file /usr/bin/[  
/usr/bin/[: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared  libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.1…

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It's an equivalent of the command . (See .) Generally you use it in scripts in conditional expressions like: The closing bracket is required to enclose the conditional. (Well, it looks like its required just to look nicer in the code. Does anybody k…

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