[: too many arguments

[Harry Putnam]

Marcus Schuetz <biped at comcast.net> writes:

> Recently I noticed getting the message "[: too many arguments" when I
> use a terminal under gnome (gnome-terminal or aterm) when using
> external (not shell) commands (less, etc.). I tried several shells
> (bash, tcsh, zsh) and I get this with all of them. I had no luck
> tracking down the origin of this message. Anybody else seeing this?
> How about a solution?

It wasn't clear to me what you mean by `when I use'.  Do you mean when
you start a terminal?

Can you explain exaclty what you do that brings on the error message please?