Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Name

type

Synopsis

                     
                        type
                      [options] commands

Report absolute pathname of programs invoked for commands and whether or not they are hashed.

Options

--

Consider all subsequent strings to be arguments, not options.

-a, -all

Print all occurrences of command, not just that which would be invoked.

-f

Suppress shell function lookup.

-p, -path

Print the hashed value of command, which may differ from the first appearance of command in the PATH.

-t, -type

Determine and state if command is an alias, keyword, function, built-in, or file.

-P

Force a PATH search for each name, even if -t would not return a value of “file” for the name.

Example

    $ type mv read
    mv is /bin/mv
    read is a shell built-in