command - run a program¶
Synopsis¶
command [OPTIONS] [COMMANDNAME [ARG ...]]
Description¶
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
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
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.