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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shell/Cshell questions
Message-ID: <570020@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 88 16:15:39 GMT
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ncsrini@ndsuvax.UUCP (srini)asks and John Ferguson (ferg@koko.UUCP) replies:
> >5. Where are the pprograms (system) for different commands supppported by
> >   a shell usually located in a system?
> You probably are referring to shell builtins.

Built-in commands recognized by csh are duplicated as zero-length
files in /usr/lib/builtins/.  (There is no corresponding directory for
sh or ksh; the files in builtins/ are strictly for csh.)

-- bd