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   Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:37:36 JST Scott Williams 🐧

   In today's #Linux #shell adventures, did you know that [ is an executable ELF binary provided by coreutils? There's a /usr/bin/[ program in the $PATH on most Linux systems.

   Check it out:
   which [

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:37:34 JST silverwizard

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     • me
     @me @vwbusguy On my system both are their own binaries, and both seem to be different (vbindiff shows differences), but they do the same thing
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:37:36 JST me

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     @vwbusguy ...which is usually a symlink to /usr/bin/test, if I'm not mistaken.

     Edit: It appears this may no longer be the case.