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| author |  Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> | 2014-07-09 18:21:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> | 2014-07-13 19:11:29 -0700 |
| commit | cc565fc16c69affeda4a7e8a1c8d7e419fc5c519 (patch) | |
| tree | 2114971f50b55a8992f2165afaead7565020a665 /doc_src/command.txt | |
| parent | 62d86b3d18feb24f93d615cfadfe1fbad86ef118 (diff) | |
Teach `command` builtin a -p/--path flag
Give the `command` builtin a single flag, -p/--path, that causes it to
print the full path that would be executed for the given command.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc_src/command.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/command.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/command.txt b/doc_src/command.txt index 19baccd4..e93f34b8 100644 --- a/doc_src/command.txt +++ b/doc_src/command.txt @@ -1,12 +1,20 @@ \section command command - run a program \subsection command-synopsis Synopsis -<tt>command COMMANDNAME [OPTIONS...]</tt> +<tt>command [OPTIONS] COMMANDNAME [ARGS...]</tt> \subsection command-description Description \c command forces the shell to execute the program \c COMMANDNAME and ignore any functions or builtins with the same name. -\subsection command-example Example +The following options are available: +- \c -h or \c --help prints help and then exits. +- \c -p or \c --path returns the name of the disk file that would be executed, or nothing if no file with the specified name could be found in the <tt>$PATH</tt>. + +With the \c -p option, \c 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. + +\subsection command-example Examples <tt>command ls</tt> causes fish to execute the \c ls program, even if an 'ls' function exists. + +<tt>command -p ls</tt> returns the path to the \c ls program. |