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Re:/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know by xelxebar on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @10:07PM (#13817535)
Yeah. Shell semantics can be pretty unintuitive sometimes. I often find it helpful to translate these ideas to standard programming language terms.

* Commands are like functions * Commands in /bin etc. are like library functions * Builtins are like a language's primitive functions * Keywords are keywords

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