Matthias Klose wrote:
> You write:
>
>>\kill can not invoke /bin/kill while \time invoke /usr/bin/time
>
>
> time is flagged as a shell keyword, kill as a shell builtin.
> Please use "command time" or "command kill" if you want to call the
> command. Not sure, if that is a bug at all.
Matthias is correct about `time' being a reserved word, so there's no
bug here. However, since `command' only inhibits shell function
lookup, `command kill' will still invoke the builtin. If you want
to invoke the executable `kill', you'll need to use its full pathname.
Chet
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