Debian's which hunt
Debian's which hunt
Posted Oct 29, 2021 14:40 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: Debian's which hunt by marcH
Parent article: Debian's which hunt
So /usr/bin/type is a shell script which just does:
#!/usr/bin/sh builtin type "$@"It is there so you can run type foo in CSH or some other shell and still have it work. So which is telling you what could be executed via your path no matter what your shell is.
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