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
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