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From: mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Deleted "["
Date: 5 Feb 1997 22:18:43 -0700
Organization: Dimensional Communications
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wolstena@sfu.ca (Paul Wolstenholme) writes:
>I think this must be up there with the bone-head maneuver of the year.
>I accidently deleted a file call "[" and now I can't compile anything.
>Being a newbie and all, I need to know what this file does and what
>the best way to restore it.
/bin/[ is a hard link to /bin/test; see the manpage for test(1) for
details. You should be able to restore it thusly:
ln /bin/test /bin/[
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Michael Fuhr
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