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Rui F Ribeiro
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so i studied somewhere about the type command and came to know that type command can provide the location of command used with it,more specifically the location of the executable file associated with the command, so i tried the type command with some basic commands like ps,wc,date etc and got their locations but when i used type with ls i got something different

ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

but i was expecting for a location instead,i am a noob in unix so i am unable to understand what is actually happening.

so i studied somewhere about the type command and came to know that type command can provide the location of command used with it,more specifically the location of the executable file associated with the command, so i tried the type command with some basic commands like ps,wc,date etc and got their locations but when i used type with ls i got something different

ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

but i was expecting for a location instead,i am a noob in unix so i am unable to understand what is actually happening

so i studied somewhere about the type command and came to know that type command can provide the location of command used with it,more specifically the location of the executable file associated with the command, so i tried the type command with some basic commands like ps,wc,date etc and got their locations but when i used type with ls i got something different

ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

but i was expecting for a location.

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type ls command

so i studied somewhere about the type command and came to know that type command can provide the location of command used with it,more specifically the location of the executable file associated with the command, so i tried the type command with some basic commands like ps,wc,date etc and got their locations but when i used type with ls i got something different

ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

but i was expecting for a location instead,i am a noob in unix so i am unable to understand what is actually happening