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+\section type type - Indicate how a name would be interpreted if used as a command name
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+\subsection type-synopsis Synopsis
+ <tt>type [OPTIONS] name [name ...]</tt>
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+\subsection type-description Description
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+With no options, indicate how each name would be interpreted if used as a command name.  
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+- \c -h or \c --help print this message
+- \c -a or \c --all print all of possible definitions of the specified names
+- \c -f or \c --no-functions supresses function and builtin lookup
+- \c -t or \c --type print a string which is one of alias, keyword, function, builtin, or file if name is an alias, shell reserved word, function, builtin, or disk file, respectively
+- \c -p or \c --path either return the name of the disk file that would be executed if name were specified as a command name, or nothing if ‘‘type  -t  name’’ would  not  return  file
+- \c -P or \c --force-path either return the name of the disk file that would be executed if name were specified as a command name, or nothing no file with the spacified name could be found in the PATH
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+\subsection type-example Example
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+<tt>type fg</tt> outputs the string 'fg is a shell builtin'.