Quote Originally Posted by silentrebel View Post
Don't you just love it how it seems that everyone has already run into all the same problems as you and made beautiful, idiomatic and efficient solutions for them.
Thanks for the hint eightmillion...
Does the builtin keyword work in all contexts then? Would it be safer to adopt it rather than the backslash?
No problem. I wouldn't say either one was inherently better than the other. They just have different uses. The backslash is great for entering a command on the command line and it even has limited use in aliases, but it doesn't work in functions, whereas "builtin" does. That's all you have to remember.