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Exactly. time echo "hello world" hello world real 0m0.000s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s

• sciurus 14y ago
  $ type /bin/echo /bin/echo is /bin/echo $ time /bin/echo "hello world" hello world real 0m0.009s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.004s $ type echo echo is a shell builtin $ time echo "hello world" hello world real 0m0.000s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s