Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > > OK; that's the key bit I was looking for. "print" is a built-in even > > when $PATH doesn't have a "print" on it, and binding would break that. > > Right (BTW: the same applies to "printf" and "sleep") ...
But sleep is a command that is available in every system since a long time, so sleep is from a different category thattypical shell builtins. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily