Roland Mainz 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
James Carlson wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
> > 2. Restricted shell scripts (e.g. "rsh", "rksh", "pfrksh" [2] etc.) need
> > a way to output data (e.g. counterpart to "read") and therefore "print"
> > was never bound to a PATH element since the korn shell exists. Otherwise
> > you have shell script
