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Comment by malkia

6 years ago

That's weird, because I use comma every time I type something in my shell (on Windows, not cmd.exe, but FAR). Why? In order to make sure that builtin ",time" is called, not "time.exe", because FAR Manager would try to run the executable under the PATH, instead of the command.

FYI in bash there's somehow similar `command` built-in.

Say you have an alias that overrides `ls`. When you want to run original ls, you run `command ls`.