Re: coreutils-5.1.1: test failure on FreeBSD 4.4

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

>> "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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