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Subject: Re: [LUG] grep and dreadful command line skills
From: James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:59:01 +0000

Simon Waters wrote:

Sometimes I have to think whether a command is a bash built-in or not,
quite a few commands exist as files for compatibility, and as shell
built-in for performance, just to confuse the newbies.


My favourite of which is /usr/bin/[ (though I think on many releases of
UNIX it was /bin/[).

James

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