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		jagger27 on Oct 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian's Which Hunt If you look at the last part of my comment, you’ll see it’s just a shell script that invokes the built-in.

pxc on Oct 30, 2021 [–]

Yeah, I discovered that after I made my previous comment, and before I saw your whole long one.

It's a weird choice, because it means that command will sometimes tell you about 'builtins' that are not actually built in to the shell you invoke it from, including `command` itself.

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