Success() does not give same result as running in terminal

General Usage
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If I run type ls in a bash terminal I get:

ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto’

If I run success(type ls) in Julia I get:

ERROR: could not spawn type ls: no such file or directory (ENOENT)

Am I doing something wrong?

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type is a shell built-in so you can’t use it in Julia. Similarly, you can’t use or examine shell aliases either.

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