Hi, On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:17:13 +0200 (CEST) Markus Gaugusch <.> wrote: ...
Strange enough, there is a separate "test" command and [ is not a link to test. But otherwise, the [ executable is perfectly normal.
Thank you for your message. I would have another question in (not so tight) relation to this topic. While checking files/folders on my SUSE 9.1 system, I realized, that many times happens, that there are files with the same size and same md5sum and they are really two separated files. I mean named differently, but stored still in the same folder. Is there a security reason or in fact why is this method better and not just link one to another as e.g. the case is for python-related stuff: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5812 2005-02-05 17:23 /usr/bin/python2.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2005-03-19 23:29 /usr/bin/python -> python2.3 I would say, it's OK, even that the above files are tiny. But there are several others as: package 'automake' -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 220546 2004-11-15 13:04 /usr/bin/automake-1.9 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 220546 2004-11-15 13:04 /usr/bin/automake or -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20632 2004-11-15 13:04 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.9 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20632 2004-11-15 13:04 /usr/bin/aclocal And additionally for the following two pairs at least 2Mb could be saved, because they are _big_: package 'perl' /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl5.8.3 /usr/bin/sperl5.8.3 /usr/bin/suidperl So the brief question is, why is it better to keep two copies of completely same file? Thank you and have a nice weekend, Pelibali