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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash : Why are spaces important here ? Post 302932265 by Corona688 on Tuesday 20th of January 2015 10:21:23 AM
Old 01-20-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by John K
So, [ character being misinterpreted as a command
That's the thing -- it's not being misinterpreted, it is a command.

Code:
$ whereis [

[: /usr/bin/[

$ ls -l /usr/bin/[

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39424 Jun  5  2014 /usr/bin/[

$

It's usually a built-in as well, but the command must exist. The shell must treat it as a command.

( ) are not commands.
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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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