command - run a program — fish-shell 4.8.1 documentation

# 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.