A file named "["?

[jdow]

On 2012/06/05 11:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Beartooth wrote:
>
>>
>> 	On one of my PCs, /bin contains an executable file whose name is
>> the left square bracket, and nothing else.
>>
>> 	Opening it with gedit gets something that's part text (generally
>> if not all commented out) and part stuff I can't read.
>>
>> 	Is there a test, usable by one who knows no code, whether it's
>> malware??
>>
>> 	What should I do?
>
>    you should leave it there -- it's an actual command.
>
> rday

Specifically it belongs to "coreutils-8.4-16.el6.x86_64".

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