From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ag4ve.us@gmail.com (shawn wilson) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:56:58 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands In-Reply-To: References: <4fcf31ef-50af-10b5-0c34-ad647ed10a4e@aueb.gr> <20160714224939.GA35271@server.rulingia.com> Message-ID: On Jul 14, 2016 7:01 PM, "Peter Jeremy" wrote: > > On 2016-Jul-15 08:36:56 +1000, Dave Horsfall 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: