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The Type Command Tutorial With Examples For Beginners

By Senthilkumar

The Type command is used to find out the information about a Linux command. As the name implies, you can easily find whether the given command is an alias, shell built-in, file, function, or keyword  using “type” command. Additionally, you can find the actual path of the command too. 

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