On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
Could you be confusing the fact the true and false
were implemented by
external commands in some early shell's
And on the Mac and FreeBSD, they still are (as well as being builtins).
At one time they were shell scripts e.g. "exit 0" for "true".
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