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| author |  David Adam (zanchey) <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> | 2013-05-12 15:56:01 +0800 |
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| committer |  ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com> | 2013-05-13 01:48:20 -0700 |
| commit | 1287b9d82382bf22e16edda67eae755f07397f2e (patch) | |
| tree | 811814b029d65ac11a193e616ca4a71d216dbe0c /doc_src/count.txt | |
| parent | 91aab03b90a6b583a3c0ecff5b015c6066d34f28 (diff) | |
Help cleanup
Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands.
More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break,
builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced,
function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd,
pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type,
ulimit, umask, and while.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc_src/count.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/count.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/count.txt b/doc_src/count.txt index 1484588a..7923ca00 100644 --- a/doc_src/count.txt +++ b/doc_src/count.txt @@ -5,20 +5,13 @@ \subsection count-description Description -The <tt>count</tt> builtin prints the number of arguments that were +<tt>count</tt> 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, but this is not the only -potential usage for the count command. - -The count command does not accept any options, not even '-h'. This way -the user does not have to worry about an array containing elements -such as dashes. \c fish performs a special check when invoking the -count command, and if the user uses a help option, this help page is -displayed, but if a help option is contained inside of a variable or -is the result of expansion, it will simply be counted like any other -argument. - -Count exits with a non-zero exit status if no arguments were passed +environment variable array contains. + +\c count does not accept any options, including '-h'. + +\c 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. \subsection count-example Example |