In terminal, can't type file /installer.failurerequests

I found in the Terminal while looking into one problem I have with App Store updates a file in the root directory called "installer.failurerequests".  So I typed:
-bash: type installer.failurerequests
and then it says
-bash: type: installer.failurerequests: not found
so then I tried this:
-base type install*
and I still got this reply:
-bash: type: installer.failurerequests: not found
What gives?  How can "ls" list a file in the directory that can be found by wild card but still not found when "type" looks to load the file?  I don't understand what is going on here.  Is this a sign of some kind of disk directory service / drive or caching error of some kind?
I need some pointers on where to go from here to figure out why I can't examine
Someone else found this file on their system after upgrading to Yosemite but they have no trouble opening their file:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/26920831#26920831

Linc Davis was right! "cat" has been the command in NIX world to display the contents of a file. "more" and "less" are improvements in Bash. "type" has never meant to read a file or show its contents.
"type" in MS-DOS is for printing contents of a file. But, in Bash that runs on NIX systems, including OS X, of course,"type" command indicates how it would be interpreted if used as a command name. As a result, /installer.failurerequests is a mysterious XML at root directory, not a builtin, not a executable command to be executed.
If you would like to try, open a terminal and run the following command:
echo "Hello" > hello.txt
type hello.txt
If your system runs standard bash, it should prompts "-bash: type: hello.txt: not found" as you have seen when running "type /installer.failurerequets".
To learn more about builtin commands in Bash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Builtins.html

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