Subject: Re: [: not found - problems with /bin/sh
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Jt Chiodi <chiodi+@pitt.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/30/1999 14:27:27
Are you sure that it is a link?  in the netbsd 1.3.2 base.gtz file, /bin/[
file size is smaller then /bin/sh.  I tried hardlinking and that did
not fix my problem.  I had to copy /bin/[ from the base back to my
SE/30 to get it to work.


> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:28:56AM -0400, Jt Chiodi wrote:
> > I my haste to recover space on my SE/30, I deleted /bin/[.
> > Which goes to show that if you don't know what it does leave it
> > alone.  anyway the responses I received from the list pointed me in
> > the right direction.  I replaceed /bin/[ with a fresh copy and
> > everything is working again. 
> 
> For the record, deleting /bin/[ will save you precisely zero space, as
> it's a hard link to /bin/test. As such, it won't even save an inode.
> Might make /bin the tiniest bit smaller, but that's too little to be
> worth the effort.
> 
>        ~ g r @ eclipsed.net
> 





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Jt Chiodi
Unix Administrator
University of Pittsburgh
chiodi@pitt.edu