The term "built-ins" is used to describe commands that exist within the shell itself. These utilities run faster than external commands because the code is already loaded into memory. Files of type "EXE", on the other hand, must be loaded into memory by gsh and executed. If an EXE command is executed again, it might, again, have to be loaded into memory. This results in longer execution time for the program.
gsh has a number of built-in commands which allow you to work with the shell, the GNO kernel, and the shell environment.
The following section describes the commands that are built-in to gsh. The "[..]" character sequence represents an optional argument to a command. The term "SIGNAL" is used to represent one of the signal names or numbers listed in Appendix D Signals. The sequence "..." means the command accepts multiple arguments of the same type as the argument before the "..." sequence. The sequence "{..}" is used to represent a set, which is a list of possible arguments to choose from.