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0 pointsjagger274y ago0 comments

It’s a shell built-in.

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pxc4y ago

No, macOS has an executable called `command` so that it is available even on shells that don't implement the builtin

jagger27OP4y ago

If you look at the last part of my comment, you’ll see it’s just a shell script that invokes the built-in.

pxc4y ago

Yeah, I discovered that after I made my previous comment, and before I saw your whole long one.

It's a weird choice, because it means that command will sometimes tell you about 'builtins' that are not actually built in to the shell you invoke it from, including `command` itself.

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pxc4y ago

No, macOS has an executable called `command` so that it is available even on shells that don't implement the builtin

jagger27OP4y ago

If you look at the last part of my comment, you’ll see it’s just a shell script that invokes the built-in.

pxc4y ago

Yeah, I discovered that after I made my previous comment, and before I saw your whole long one.

It's a weird choice, because it means that command will sometimes tell you about 'builtins' that are not actually built in to the shell you invoke it from, including `command` itself.

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