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-v

Produce a more verbose report.

-c

Print the results in a csh-like format. This takes precedence over -v .

-w

For each name , print name : word where word is one of alias , builtin , command , functions , reserved or none, according as name corresponds to an alias, a built-in command, an external command, a shell function, a reserved word, or is not recognised. This takes precedence over -v and -c .

-f

Causes the contents of a shell function to be displayed, which would otherwise not happen unless the -c flag were used.

-m

The arguments are taken as patterns (should be quoted), and the information is displayed for each command matching one of these patterns.