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Re: type -p return status is 0 if alias found


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: type -p return status is 0 if alias found
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:25:03 -0400
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On Tuesday 03 April 2007, John.Wiersba@thomson.com wrote:
>    "type -p CMD" normally has a non-zero return status if CMD is not
> found.  But if CMD is an alias, the return status is zero even though
> nothing is printed to stdout.

by definition, this is how -p is supposed to work ... my guess is you want -P
-mike

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