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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shell/Cshell questions
Message-ID: <1263@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 08:54:10 GMT
References: <1145@ndsuvax.UUCP> <570020@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <570020@hpsemc.HP.COM>, bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) writes:
> ncsrini@ndsuvax.UUCP (srini)asks and John Ferguson (ferg@koko.UUCP) replies:
[an attribution seems to have been lost -dM]
>>> 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.)

Please, people, qualify questions and answers with a system type, or at
least general family.  I've never heard of /usr/lib/builtins and
neither have our machines (most of them BSD).  (Unless, of course, the
question or answer is inherently specific, such as "what's the BSD
analog of VMIN and VTIME".)

As far as I know, BSD doesn't have files anywhere corresponding to
shell builtins (sh, csh, foosh, it matters not).  Some things which are
built into some shells but not others exist as programs for the benefit
of the shells into which they are not built, but that's about it.

					der Mouse

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(To stave off the flood: BSD has no direct analogs of VMIN and VTIME.)