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So also are /usr/bin/{cd,[,echo,pwd,fg,..etc} a lot of them having subtle differences with their corresponding shell builtins. Most of the time the differences
by devnonymous 10y ago
So also are /usr/bin/{cd,[,echo,pwd,fg,..etc} a lot of them having subtle differences with their corresponding shell builtins. Most of the time the differences are not worth the hassle to remember, unless you somehow end up on a system with a broken filesystem (for example where /lib or /usr/lib is destroyed) and need to rescue stuff.