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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: Can "type" take "-p" and "-t" flags?
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Date: 25 Jul 89 15:40:26 GMT
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   Date: 24 Jul 89 22:05:32 GMT
   From: rsalz@bbn.com  (Rich Salz)
   Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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   The "type" command knows about -type and -path.  Apparently -n is a
   synonym for -path.  It would be more Unix'y and consistant with declare if
   we had -t and -p, respectively.  The changes in builtins.c type_builtin()
   are obvious.
	   /rich $alz
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-type and -path are more GNU'y.  Isn't that the operating system that
this shell is being written for?

I wish you people would complain that you can't use completion to type
these arguments instead of telling me that the argument names are too
descriptive.

Brian