rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) (03/14/91)
In article <353@rosie.NeXT.COM> news@NeXT.COM (news) writes: >This bug in Upgrade2.0 surfaces when /bin/test on the system you are upgrading >has been altered or touched. To support the Bourne shell, /bin/[ is a link to >/bin/test: when Upgrade2.0 sees that /bin/[ has been modified, it tries to >bring up an attention panel to ask you if the file should be preserved or >overwritten. Unfortunately, it becomes confused by the metacharacter in the >file's name and an error ensues. Why is this? I thought [ was built into sh. I don't have this link on my SysV machine. Is this a BSDism? -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us