TYPE(1POSIX)

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💖 TYPE(1POSIX) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page straight out of the POSIX Programmer's Manual — iconic, timeless, lowkey the blueprint. ✨

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

no cap, that's just the standard disclaimer. Linux girlies, check your local page too. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

type — write a description of command type

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

type name...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

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

like, it's the "so what even IS this thing" utility. you hand it a name, it tells you how the shell would read that name if you tried to run it. main character energy fr. 👑

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

None.

nope, zero, nada. she doesn't need them. 💅

🍓 OPERANDS 🍓

The following operand shall be supported:

  • name — A name to be interpreted.

💜 STDIN 💜

Not used.

🦋 INPUT FILES 🦋

None.

⭐ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ⭐

The following environment variables shall affect the execution of type:

  • LANG — Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
  • LC_ALL — If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
  • LC_CTYPE — Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
  • LC_MESSAGES — Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
  • NLSPATH — Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
  • PATH — Determine the location of name, as described in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8, Environment Variables.

🧚 ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS 🧚

Default.

🔥 STDOUT 🔥

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

bestie the format is genuinely unspecified, so don't go scripting against it and then acting surprised, iykyk 😭

💀 STDERR 💀

The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

🙈 OUTPUT FILES 🙈

None.

🌸 EXTENDED DESCRIPTION 🌸

None.

👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

The following exit values shall be returned:

  • 0 — Successful completion.
  • >0 — An error occurred.

💖 CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS 💖

Default.

The following sections are informative.

🫶 APPLICATION USAGE 🫶

Since 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), it is always provided as a shell regular built-in. If it is called in a separate utility execution environment, such as one of the following:

nohup type writer
find . -type f | xargs type

it might not produce accurate results.

the way that it literally has to live inside your shell to know what's going on... if you yeet it into a separate execution environment it's giving ✨vibes only✨, not accuracy. be careful. 🌈

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

None.

💅 RATIONALE 💅

None.

🌟 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 🌟

None.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

command, hash

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8, Environment Variables

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this lil masterpiece came from IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, and it's filed under TYPE(1POSIX). go forth and type things. periodt. 💖✨

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