type identify how KornShell interprets name	KornShell Built-in
	SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DIAGNOSTICS PORTABILITY NOTE AVAILABILITY SEE ALSO

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SYNOPSIS

type name ...

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DESCRIPTION

type identifies the nature of one or more names. Names can be executable files or KornShell reserved words, aliases, functions, or built-in commands. For executable files, the full path name is given.

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DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 

Successful completion.

2 

Failure due to an invalid command line argument.

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PORTABILITY

Bourne Shell. KornShell. Windows 2000. Windows XP. Windows Server 2003. Windows Vista. Windows 7. Windows Server 2008.

See command for the POSIX.2 replacement.

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NOTE

This command is built into the MKS KornShell. There is a command of the same name built into the command interpreters on Windows systems which has no relationship to this command.

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AVAILABILITY

MKS Toolkit for Power Users
MKS Toolkit for System Administrators
MKS Toolkit for Developers
MKS Toolkit for Interoperability
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition
MKS Integrity

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SEE ALSO

Commands:

alias, command, sh, whence

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