fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/command.rst
Fabian Homborg bfb5b28d0f Let command, jobs and type take --query instead of --quiet
Now command, jobs, type, abbr, builtin, functions and set take `-q` to
query for existence, but the long option is inconsistent.

The first three use `--quiet`, the latter use `--query`. Add `--query`
to the first three, but keep `--quiet` around.

Fixes #7276.
2020-09-04 16:55:09 +02:00

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.. _cmd-command:
command - run a program
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Synopsis
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::
command [OPTIONS] COMMANDNAME [ARGS...]
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`` returns all the external COMMANDNAMEs that are found in ``$PATH`` in the order they are found.
- ``-q`` or ``--query``, silences the output and prints nothing, setting only the exit status. Implies ``--search``. For compatibility with old fish versions this is also ``--quiet`` (but this is deprecated).
- ``-s`` or ``--search`` returns the name of the external command that would be executed, or nothing if no file with the specified name could be found in the ``$PATH``.
With the ``-s`` 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 1 if no commands could be found. Additionally passing a ``-q`` or ``--quiet`` option prevents any paths from being printed, like ``type -q``, for testing only the exit status.
For basic compatibility with POSIX ``command``, the ``-v`` flag is recognized as an alias for ``-s``.
Examples
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``command ls`` causes fish to execute the ``ls`` program, even if an ``ls`` function exists.
``command -s ls`` returns the path to the ``ls`` program.
``command -q git; and command git log`` runs ``git log`` only if ``git`` exists.