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/