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which vs type

  • which

    • finds executable in your $PATH
    • lives in /usr/bin/which

  • type

    • determines if command is alias, function, built-in command, cached executable (hashed), binary in $PATH, etc
    • shell builtin
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jlguenego commented Apr 2, 2023

You can use hash -r to remove the cached executable. So which and type will resync.

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