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type(1)
NAME
  type - Writes a description of command type

SYNOPSIS
  type name...

STANDARDS
  Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards
  as follows:

  type:	 XCU5.0

  Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about
  industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS
  None

OPERANDS
  name
      A name to be interpreted

DESCRIPTION
  The type utility indicates how each argument would be interpreted if used
  as a command name.

  The standard output of type contains information about each parameter. The
  information provided identifies the operand as a shell built-in, a
  function, an alias or keyword, and where applicable, displays the command's
  pathname.

RESTRICTIONS
  For proper execution, type must be aware of the contents of the current
  shell execution environment (such as the lists of commands, functions and
  built-ins processed by hash).	 If type is called in a separate utility
  execution environment, such as one of the following it might not produce
  accurate results.

       nohup type writer
       find . -type f | xargs type

EXIT STATUS
  The following exit values are returned:

  0   Successful completion.

  >0  An error occurred.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  The following environment variables affect the execution of type:

  LANG
      Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that
      are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value
      from the default locale is used.	If any of the internationalization
      variables contains an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none
      of the variables had been defined.

  LC_ALL
      If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the
      other internationalization variables.

  LC_CTYPE
      Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of
      text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
      multibyte characters in arguments).

  LC_MESSAGES
      Determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and
      contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.

  NLSPATH
      Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of
      LC_MESSAGES.

  PATH
      Determines the location of name.

SEE ALSO
  Commands:  command(1), hash(1)

  Standards:  standards(5)

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