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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>
