What are External and Internal commands in Linux?

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1. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   "internal command" most commonly means "built-into bash".
   External are ones that aren't part of bash. E.g. echo.
   
   There's a bash-built-in echo which will be used by default.
   If you want to use the stand-alone one, use with the fully
   qualified path, e.g. /bin/echo

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