fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/count.rst
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count - count the number of elements of an array
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Synopsis
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count $VARIABLE
Description
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``count`` prints the number of arguments that were passed to it. This is usually used to find out how many elements an environment variable array contains.
``count`` does not accept any options, not even ``-h`` or ``--help``.
``count`` exits with a non-zero exit status if no arguments were passed to it, and with zero if at least one argument was passed.
Example
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::
count $PATH
# Returns the number of directories in the users PATH variable.
count *.txt
# Returns the number of files in the current working directory ending with the suffix '.txt'.