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TIL that a shell reserved word is different from a shell builtin. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/267761/differences-between-keyword-reserved-word-and-
by ramshorns 10y ago
TIL that a shell reserved word is different from a shell builtin.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/267761/differences-between-keyword-reserved-word-and-builtin http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/267761/differences-b...
- halostatue 10y agoMe, too. I was surprised because I was trying to use `builtin time`. :)
- xelxebar 10y agoYeah. Shell semantics can be pretty unintuitive sometimes. I often find it helpful to translate these ideas to standard programming language terms. * Commands are like functions * Commands in /bin etc. are like library functions * Builtins are like a language's primitive functions * Keywords are keywords