Published Sep 15 2020
A command can be one of those 4 types:
The type
command can help figure out this, in case we want to know or weโre just curious. It will tell you how the command will be interpreted.
The output will depend on the shell used. This is Bash:
This is Zsh:
This is Fish:
One of the most interesting things here is that for aliases it will tell you what is aliasing to. You can see the ll
alias, in the case of Bash and Zsh, but Fish provides it by default, so it will tell you itโs a built-in shell function.
The
type
command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment
I wrote an entire book on this topic ๐
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