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type Linux Command

Displays how a command name would be interpreted (alias, builtin, external, etc.).

What does type do?

Displays how a command name would be interpreted (alias, builtin, external, etc.).

type command

type ls

Locates the binary, source, and manual page files for a command.

Powerful text processing language for pattern scanning and data extraction.

Shows the full path of the executable that would run for a given command.

Stream editor for filtering and transforming text (find/replace, insert, delete).

Quickly finds files by name using a pre-built database (run updatedb to refresh).

Sorts lines of text files alphabetically or numerically.