TYPE — Display the contents of one or more files

Synopsis

TYPE [/?] [/A[+|-]drash] [/S[+|-]drash] [/OLDSRCDIR[+|-]] [/E[+|-]] Filespecs…

Options

/?

Display command syntax information.

/A

Select files by attribute.

/S

Recurse into subdirectories.

/E

Do not display non-fatal error messages.

/OLDSRCDIR

Duplicate quirks of the 16-bit CMD supplied with IBM OS/2 with respect to source names.

Description

The TYPE command displays, to its standard output, the contents of all of the files that match the search wildcard specifications passed as its arguments.

The TYPE command first processes the contents of the CMD_TYPE_INIT environment variable, if it has inherited one, as if it were a command tail, before processing any of the command tails that have been passed to it. This allows one to modify default options globally. (One can use command aliases or wrapper scripts to achieve the same effect.)

Related commands

COPYPLUS COPYSTD MORE MOVE RENAME DEL DESCRIBE TRUENAME