>> "command" isn't portable to older shells, so I'm a bit leery about
>> seeing it in portable scripts anyway. ... I suspect that it was a POSIX
>> invention ...
For coreutils, instead of "command ls ...", why not do "$LS ..." where
LS is set at configure time to a full filepath, such as /bin/ls?
The POSIX c952 document describes it on p. 257, and says:
CHANGE HISTORY: First released in Issue 4.
The preamble of that document says:
Issue 4
CAE Specification, July 1992, published by The Open Group:
7 System Interface Definitions (XBD), Issue 4 (ISBN: 1-872630-46-4,
C204)
7 Commands and Utilities (XCU), Issue 4 (ISBN: 1-872630-48-0, C203)
7 System Interfaces and Headers (XSH), Issue 4 (ISBN: 1-872630-47-2,
C202)
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