On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 16:34 +0530, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P wrote: > In TLDP tutorial about the kernel, it is saying that all shell commands > except cd and pwd are binary executables. This is not corretc. Look into the man page of your shell, which commands the shell itself executes. > If cd and pwd are not so, then > what are they?? Built-in commands of the shell. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/