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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:13:12 pm by IanMcDonald
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-In Unix, a shell builtin is a command or a function, called from a shell , that is executed directly in the shell itself, instead of an external executable program which the shell would load and execute. 
+In Unix, a shell builtin is a command or a function, called from a [Shell] , that is executed directly in the shell itself, instead of an external executable program which the shell would load and execute. 
  
 !How can I tell if the command I am using is a shell builtin rather than an external program? 
  
 *type <command_name>