From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: nl section delimiters
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 09:12:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5cd2e8f-e480-41bf-b498-b52a0b6457fe@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240511204816.UwAcweCX@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
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On 5/11/24 4:48 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> The [.] command search [.] allows for a standard utility to be
> implemented as a regular built-in as long as it is found in the
> appropriate place in a PATH search.
> [.]command -v true might yield /bin/true or some similar pathname.
To be fair, no one really implements this. ksh93 is the shell that comes
closest.
The next edition of the standard acknowledges the status quo with the
`intrinsics' concept.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-13 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-11 2:19 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-11 20:48 ` [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-13 13:12 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
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2024-05-10 6:15 [TUHS] " David Arnold
2024-05-10 10:08 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-05-10 16:05 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-05-10 16:50 ` John P. Linderman
2024-05-10 23:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-11 9:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
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