Re: The 1n command

[Van Helsing]

Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2007-11-03, Paul Martin <pm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This is correct, but not "correct".
>
> ianr@desktop ~ $ which ln
> /usr/bin/ln
> ianr@desktop ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/ln
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 Jan 26  2006 /usr/bin/ln -> /bin/ln
> ianr@desktop ~ $ ls -l /bin/ln
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 24004 Jan 26  2006 /bin/ln
> ianr@desktop ~ $ ldd /bin/ln
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e3c000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f60000)
> ianr@desktop ~ $ echo $BASH_VERSION 
> 3.00.16(1)-release
>
> So it's built into your version of bash, but not mine.  But who was
> claiming what was built in, and built into what?  Largely irrelevant
> otherwise without context.

"Built in" usually refers to shell built ins... commands that for 
reasons of efficiency or access to environment are part of the program 
that implements the shell as opposed to separate standalone binaries.

echo and  set are two that spring to mind but there are many others...

VH.