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 ofcommand
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
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