From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind)
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:27:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOkr1zUXY2EvHG01UEx+y6MEz_OtrH1=dmJAFzv0D5EgB3qCMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160714224939.GA35271@server.rulingia.com>
Thought I'd mention here that the OP was asking about the original shell,
and that the Mashey and Bourne shells were much newer than that.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:49 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:
> >> Could you be confusing the fact the true and false were implemented by
> >> external commands in some early shell's
>
> I was always amused by AT&T adding a multi-kB copyright notice to what
> had previously been an empty file.
>
> >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
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>
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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 [this message]
2016-07-15 10:13 ` Joerg Schilling
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2016-07-14 23:56 ` shawn wilson
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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