internal and external commands in linux shell

There are 2 types of Linux Commands.
  • Internal (Shell Built ins)
  • External
Internal commands are better than external commands from performance point of view as shell does not have to fork new process to run internal commands (also called as built-ins). You can find out if specific command is internal or external by executing below command.
 
$type <command-name>

If you get the output as command is “shell built-in”, that means the command is internal otherwise it is external. Here are the examples of Internal Commands
 
cd
echo
pwd

Here are the examples of External Commands
 
ls
dir

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