Shell/Cshell questions

bob desinger bd at hpsemc.HP.COM
Tue Aug 23 02:15:39 AEST 1988


ncsrini at ndsuvax.UUCP (srini)asks and John Ferguson (ferg at koko.UUCP) replies:
> >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.)

-- bd



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