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A QUICK REFERENCE TO… SHELL BUILT-INS

ometimes you may execute a shell command and find that its behaviour doesn’t match that of the man page. This is because most shells, like and , have duplicates man page is long, but the information is in there). You can tell if a command is a built-in one or not with the type command:

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