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alias, shell reserved word, shell function, shell builtin, disk file,
or unfound, respectively.
If the -p flag is used, `type' either returns the name of the disk
file that would be executed, or nothing if `type -t NAME' would not
return `file'.
If the -a flag is used, `type' displays all of the places that contain
an executable named `file'. This includes aliases and functions, if
and only if the -p flag is not also used.
The following sample .bashrc file will set the command line prompt to:
user@host:/currentdirectory:
Then set the shell command-line mode to the powerful vi editing mode. Then we
set the ...