type - locate a command and describe its type¶

Synopsis¶

type [OPTIONS] NAME [...]

With no options, type indicates how each NAME would be interpreted if used as a command name.

The following options are available:

-a or --all: Prints all of possible definitions of the specified names.
-s or --short: Don’t print function definitions when used with no options or with -a/--all.
-f or --no-functions: Suppresses function lookup.
-t or --type: Prints function, builtin, or file if NAME is a shell function, builtin, or disk file, respectively.
-p or --path: Prints the path to NAME if NAME resolves to an executable file in PATH, the path to the script containing the definition of the function NAME if NAME resolves to a function loaded from a file on disk (i.e. not interactively defined at the prompt), or nothing otherwise.
-P or --force-path: Returns the path to the executable file NAME, presuming NAME is found in the PATH environment variable, or nothing otherwise. --force-path explicitly resolves only the path to executable files in PATH, regardless of whether NAME is shadowed by a function or builtin with the same name.
-q or --query: Suppresses all output; this is useful when testing the exit status. For compatibility with old fish versions this is also --quiet.
-h or --help: Displays help about using this command.

The -q, -p, -t and -P flags (and their long flag aliases) are mutually exclusive. Only one can be specified at a time.

type returns 0 if at least one entry was found, 1 otherwise, and 2 for invalid options or option combinations.

>_ type fg
fg is a builtin