What is /usr/bin/[?

I was just poking around in /usr/bin and I found an ELF binary file called [. /usr/bin/[. I have never heard of this file and my first thought was that it was a clever way of hiding a program, possibly a trojan. However it's present on all my CentOS servers and seems to have no manual entry. I can hazard a guess as to what it is but I was looking for a more authoritative answer...

It's an alternative form of the 'test' command. Mostly used in scripts.

i.e.

if [ $VAR ]
then
    echo $VAR exists!
fi

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