enable

NAME

SYNOPSIS

enable [-a] [-dnps] [-f filename] [name ...]

DESCRIPTION

Enable and disable builtin shell commands.  Disabling a builtin allows a disk command which has the same name as a shell builtin to be executed without specifying a full pathname, even though the shell normally searches for builtins before disk commands.  If -n is used, each name is disabled; otherwise, names are enabled.  For example, to use the test binary found via the PATH instead of the shell builtin version, run ``enable -n test''.  The -f option means to load the new builtin command name from shared object filename, on systems that support dynamic loading.  The -d option will delete a builtin previously loaded with -f.  If no name arguments are given, or if the -p option is supplied, a list of shell builtins is printed.  With no other option arguments, the list consists of all enabled shell builtins.  If -n is supplied, only disabled builtins are printed.  If -a is supplied, the list printed includes all builtins, with an indication of whether or not each is enabled.  If -s is supplied, the output is restricted to the POSIX special builtins.  The return value is 0 unless a name is not a shell builtin or there is an error loading a new builtin from a shared object.

SEE ALSO

This is extracted from the main bash man page, see there for more details.