`type x' finds the directory x

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From: Erik E. Rantapaa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:55

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I don't know if this has been reported before, but on a Sparc
running SunOS 4.1.2, the command

   type x

will return, say, /bin/x even if /bin/x is a directory.
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        Erik Rantapaa                   rantapaa@math.umn.edu
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 	A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
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