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Subject: Re: [9fans] v8 shell
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:51:04 +0000
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> whatis & builtin were _essential_, so you could write a function like cd, so
> it could use 'builtin' so you could have a function called 'cd' and it would do
> what you wanted.

there's a builtin command built in to bash, i discovered recently,
but it gets it so wrong... i wanted to write a shell function
to replace ls:

$ ls() {
	builtin ls "$@" | cat
}
$ ls
-bash: builtin: ls: not a shell builtin
$

they don't seem to have a clue.