MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

type(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities type(1)
NAME
type — tell how shell interprets name
SYNOPSIS
type name ...
DESCRIPTION
type identifies the nature of one or more names. Names can be shell reserved words, aliases,
shell functions, built-in commands, or executable files. For executable files, the path name of
the file is given.
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
2 Failure due to an invalid command line argument.
Messages
Because this utility is built into the
MPE/iX Shell, see the sh(1) man page for a complete list of
error messages that you may receive when using it.
PORTABILITY
Bourne Shell. KornShell.
See command(1) for the
POSIX
.2 replacement.
NOTE
This command is built into the shell.
MPE/iX NOTES
For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this
utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.
SEE ALSO
alias(1), command(1), sh(1), whence(1)
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