[Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Fri Sep 25 05:59:38 UTC 2009


When did bash become Swahili or was bash written in swahili.

Is the thread about swahili or bash, or both? I'm lost
Roger

On 09/24/2009 03:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 06:14 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>    
>> Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to
>> the bash shell, but it definitely is a bash command. Otherwise, maybe
>> you could tell us what a bash command is to you?
>>      
> You are wrong. 'rm' (meaning /bin/rm) is an executable program. Shell
> commands are builtin procedures such as 'cd', 'eval', etc. Unix Shells
> have worked this way since the beginning.
>
> In Bash, if you want to know if a command is builtin, use 'type':
>
> $ type rm
> rm is /bin/rm
> $ type cd
> cd is a shell builtin
> $ type type
> type is a shell builtin
>
> poc
>
>    




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