From: ag4ve.us@gmail.com (shawn wilson)
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:56:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH_OBidB9EsULxX1+nY=Mg4SJ20OqCa+6eBk2KOPU-S_81hihw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBie_6gFy+BqkCMj+sr0NqTMNOQxvgWf6SQnHMJpn7DAytA@mail.gmail.com>
On Jul 14, 2016 7:01 PM, "Peter Jeremy" <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
>
> On 2016-Jul-15 08:36:56 +1000, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
> >And on the Mac and FreeBSD, they still are (as well as being builtins).
>
> FreeBSD provides a convenient list of what commands are (currently)
builtin
> to the provided shells and available externally:
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?builtin
>
Bash man page does as well along with command -v (and hash IIRC) letting
you know.
I've always been curious though - what was the reason behind implementing
/bin/[ ? IDK any shell where this isn't implemented - I always assumed it's
a POSIX compatibility stopgap older systems needed to stay compliant with
their shipped shell.
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2016-07-14 13:18 Diomidis Spinellis
2016-07-14 13:23 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-14 14:12 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-14 22:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-14 22:47 ` Corey Lindsly
2016-07-14 22:49 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-07-14 23:27 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-07-15 10:13 ` Joerg Schilling
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2016-07-14 23:56 ` shawn wilson [this message]
2016-07-15 1:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15 1:22 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-15 2:25 ` arnold
2016-07-16 6:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15 2:25 ` Random832
2016-07-15 3:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15 4:09 ` Random832
2016-07-15 13:55 ` Chet Ramey
2016-07-14 23:10 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-15 1:41 ` Nemo
2016-07-15 9:00 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-14 14:11 ` schoedel
2016-07-14 14:38 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-07-14 15:46 ` John Cowan
2016-07-14 16:30 ` Random832
2016-07-14 22:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-15 4:29 Rudi Blom
2016-07-15 12:27 Norman Wilson
2016-09-10 7:45 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-10 9:13 ` Michael Kjörling
2016-09-10 9:41 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-10 17:06 ` Random832
2016-09-10 17:45 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-10 19:53 ` Dan Cross
2016-09-10 20:02 ` Chet Ramey
2016-09-10 20:27 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-11 10:03 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-12 10:05 ` Jacob Goense
2016-07-15 16:47 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-10 17:40 ` Dario Niedermann
2016-09-10 19:22 ` arnold
2016-09-12 8:35 ` markus schnalke
2016-09-12 9:25 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 12:41 ` Tony Finch
2016-09-12 12:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-13 0:17 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-09-13 1:45 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-09-13 9:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 20:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-12 21:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-10 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-11 1:24 ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-11 2:39 ` arnold
2016-09-11 2:41 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-09-11 4:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-11 5:01 ` arnold
2016-09-12 5:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-10 14:57 Nemo
2016-09-11 17:39 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-11 18:11 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-11 18:27 ` Dan Cross
2016-09-11 18:50 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-09-11 22:13 ` Random832
2016-09-12 0:27 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-12 1:31 Norman Wilson
2016-09-12 9:33 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 1:43 Norman Wilson
2016-09-12 9:18 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-09-12 12:56 Norman Wilson
2016-09-12 12:57 Norman Wilson
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