command - run a program

Synopsis

.. synopsis::

command [OPTIONS] [COMMANDNAME [ARG ...]]

Description

.. only:: builder_man

      NOTE: This page documents the fish builtin ``command``.
      To see the documentation on any non-fish versions, use ``command man command``.

command forces the shell to execute the program COMMANDNAME and ignore any functions or builtins with the same name.

In command foo, command is a keyword.

The following options are available:

-a or --all Prints all COMMAND found in :envvar:PATH, in the order found.

-q or --query Return 0 if any of the given commands could be found, 127 otherwise. Don't print anything. For compatibility, this is also --quiet (deprecated).

-s or --search (or -v) Prints the external command that would be executed, or prints nothing if no file with the specified name could be found in :envvar:PATH.

-h or --help Displays help about using this command.

Examples

| command ls executes the ls program, even if an ls function also exists. | command -s ls prints the path to the ls program. | command -q git; and command git log runs git log only if git exists. | command -sq git and command -q git and command -vq git return true (0) if a git command could be found and don't print anything.