| COMMAND(1) | fish-shell | COMMAND(1) |
NAME
command - run a program
SYNOPSIS
command [OPTIONS] [COMMANDNAME [ARG ...]]
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: This page documents the fish builtin command. To see the documentation on any non-fish versions, use command man command.
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 <#envvar-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 <#envvar-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.
Copyright
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| October 10, 2026 | 4.9 |