Suspicious EXE named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?

[Matthias Andree]

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 [".

-- 
Matthias Andree

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