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It looks very interesting, but the first thing I noticed as a macOS user, is the shell has a built-in command "open" which I expect will conflict with the standard macOS command "open" and I haven't found any docs that describe how to deal with this.

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This is true of shell built-ins for eg. test too.

The solution is to use the full path if you want to use the program, not the shell built-in.

In this case, "/usr/bin/open" not "open" will get you the macOS utility. If you get sick of doing that, create a shell alias.

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