fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/command.rst

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command - run a program
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Synopsis
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.. synopsis::

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

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

The following options are available:

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

**-q** or **--query**
    Silence output and print nothing, setting only exit status.
    Implies **--search**.
    For compatibility, this is also **--quiet** (deprecated).

**-v** (or **-s** or **--search**)
    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.

With the **-v** option, ``command`` treats every argument as a separate command to look up and sets the exit status to 0 if any of the specified commands were found, or 127 if no commands could be found. **--quiet** used with **-v** prevents commands being printed, like ``type -q``.

Examples
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| ``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.
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docs synopsis: add HTML highlighing and automate manpage markup Recent synopsis changes move from literal code blocks to [RST line blocks]. This does not translate well to HTML: it's not rendered in monospace, so aligment is lost. Additionally, we don't get syntax highlighting in HTML, which adds differences to our code samples which are highlighted. We hard-wrap synopsis lines (like code blocks). To align continuation lines in manpages we need [backslashes in weird places]. Combined with the *, , and `` markup, it's a bit hard to get the alignment right. Fix these by moving synopsis sources back to code blocks and compute HTML syntax highlighting and manpage markup with a custom Sphinx extension. The new Pygments lexer can tokenize a synopsis and assign the various highlighting roles, which closely matches fish's syntax highlighing: - command/keyword (dark blue) - parameter (light blue) - operator like and/or/not/&&/\|\| (cyan) - grammar metacharacter (black) For manpage output, we don't project the fish syntax highlighting but follow the markup convention in GNU's man(1): bold text type exactly as shown. italic text replace with appropriate argument. To make it easy to separate these two automatically, formalize that (italic) placeholders must be uppercase; while all lowercase text is interpreted literally (so rendered bold). This makes manpages more consistent, see string-join(1) and and(1). Implementation notes: Since we want manpage formatting but Sphinx's Pygments highlighing plugin does not support manpage output, add our custom "synopsis" directive. This directive parses differently when manpage output is specified. This means that the HTML and manpage build processes must not share a cache, because the parsed doctrees are cached. Work around this by using separate cache locations for build targets "sphinx-docs" (which creates HTML) and "sphinx-manpages". A better solution would be to only override Sphinx's ManualPageBuilder but that would take a bit more code (ideally we could override ManualPageWriter but Sphinx 4.3.2 doesn't really support that). --- Alternative solution: stick with line blocks but use roles like :command: or :option: (or custom ones). While this would make it possible to produce HTML that is consistent with code blocks (by adding a bit of CSS), the source would look uglier and is harder to maintain. (Let's say we want to add custom formatting to the [\|] metacharacters in HTML. This is much easier with the proposed patch.) --- [RST line blocks]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks [backslashes in weird places]: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/8626#discussion_r782837750 2022-01-09 22:09:46 +08:00			`.. synopsis::`

			`command [OPTIONS] [COMMANDNAME [ARG ...]]`
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			`The following options are available:`

cd, cdh, command, commandline Documentation. 2021-12-09 20:45:10 +08:00			`-a or --all`
			Prints all COMMAND found in :envvar:`PATH`, in the order found.
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cd, cdh, command, commandline Documentation. 2021-12-09 20:45:10 +08:00			`-q or --query`
			`Silence output and print nothing, setting only exit status.`
			`Implies --search.`
			`For compatibility, this is also --quiet (deprecated).`
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cd, cdh, command, commandline Documentation. 2021-12-09 20:45:10 +08:00			`-v (or -s or --search)`
			Prints the external command that would be executed, or prints nothing if no file with the specified name could be found in :envvar:`PATH`.
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Update command.rst 2021-12-12 16:17:16 +08:00			\| ``command ls`` executes the ``ls`` program, even if an ``ls`` function also exists.
			\| ``command -s ls`` prints the path to the ``ls`` program.
cd, cdh, command, commandline Documentation. 2021-12-09 20:45:10 +08:00			\| ``command -q git; and command git log`` runs ``git log`` only if ``git`` exists.