bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

Jeremy Hetzler jeremyhetzler@mail.earthlink.net
Fri Feb 28 10:12:00 GMT 2003


At 01:51 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:

>  What is different about your particular installation, I have no idea.

Actually, one idea. Your 'type' might be an alias or function that fails to 
quote its arguments properly. Try "builtin type -a type". If it doesn't 
return precisely "type is a shell builtin", then that's your problem.

Jeremy Hetzler


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