TYPE(1)

NAME
type - locate a command and describe its type

SYNOPSIS
type [OPTIONS] NAME [...]

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: This page documents the fish builtin type. To see the documentation on any non-fish versions, use command man type.

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 <#envvar-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 <#envvar-PATH> environment variable, or nothing otherwise. --force-path explicitly resolves only the path to executable files in PATH <#envvar-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.

--color WHEN
    Controls when to use syntax highlighting colors when printing function definitions. WHEN can be auto (the default, colorize if the output is a terminal <>), always, or never.

-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.

EXAMPLE

    >_ type fg
    fg is a builtin

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