• macniel@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    foobar Command – Quick Text Substitution

    doesn’t work for me (using fish) and is apparantly only available in bash; would you call that then a command?

    at Command – Schedule One-Time Tasks

    at is also not a built-in but an external tool you have to install first; but its an interesting one.

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      doesn’t work for me (using fish) and is apparantly only available in bash; would you call that then a command?

      Right, the ^search^replace is a Bash feature. It is a builtin command, like echo or cd in example. Just because a command is not available to any other shell or if its not an independent program, does not make it not a command (in my opinion).

      However I agree its a little bit out of place here. A note that its a builtin and not universally available to every shell would have been nice in such a listing.

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        just for the sake of being pedantic: echo is actually a program (just like ls) cd though is indeed a command. And I agree with your last statement.