It looks type has been buried under the weight of its success

Ha ha! It's been twenty years since I looked at this in any detail, just kept on happily using the good ol' bald type command. I was surprised just now (and not in a good way) to learn of many more ways to do it:

• The Linux type command - which supports the -p option, as used by ikegami above.
• The POSIX type command - which does not support any options.
• The Unix which command.
• The KornShell whence command.
• The POSIX command command (sic) - not a fan of this command name. :)

I don't think this is an impressive application of TMTOWTDI. :)