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Post Closed as "Duplicate" by Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' bash

Order of executables started in bash

occurred Apr 13, 2016 at 22:25

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How does the shell decide which of same-name keyword, builtin, and external command to run?

When there are same-name builtin, keyword and/or external command, what is the order in which the Bash shell decides which to run?

For example,

keyword time and external command time,
builtin printf and external command printf from coreutils.

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