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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1
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<<On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:12:38 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   The following builtins are now available as external commands as well:
  
>           bg
>           cd
>           command
>           fc
>           fg
>           getopts
>           jobs
>           read
>           umask
>           unalias
>           wait
  
I would like to see separate manual pages for each of these (in the
style of the POSIX spec), but I don't care to do the work myself, so
anyone is welcome to have at it.  I'd also like to see builtin(1) make
a clearer distinction between reserved words (like if, while, for, do,
done, and fi) and things that are actual commands.  The description in
builtin(1) of the external commands (called ``regular built-in
commands'' in POSIX) should probably point out that almost all of them
are useless and included only for standards compliance.

-GAWollman


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