COMMAND(1)

🎀 COMMAND(1) 🎀

okay so this is the fish-shell manual page for command, bestie — buckle up, it's a short one and it's lowkey iconic 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

command — run a program 🏃‍♀️💨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

command [OPTIONS] [COMMANDNAME [ARG ...]]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

NOTE: This page documents the fish builtin command. Wanna see the docs for any non-fish versions? Run command man command — yes, really, that's the whole vibe 😭🫶

so command forces the shell to execute the program COMMANDNAME and ignore any functions or builtins with the same name. like, it's the "no, I meant the real one" of shell builtins 💀

heads up though: in command foo, command is a keyword. not a builtin, a keyword. iykyk ✨

the following options are available:

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -a, --all — prints all COMMAND found in PATH <#envvar-PATH>, in the order found. all of em, every single one, no cap 👑
• -q, --query — returns 0 if any of the given commands could be found, 127 otherwise. and it does not print anything. literally silent, main character energy of keeping your mouth shut 🤐. for compatibility, this is also --quiet (deprecated 🙈) — it still works but pls don't, it's giving legacy
• -s, --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>. like a little peek behind the curtain ✨🦋
• -h, --help — displays help about using this command. the classic "help me help you" 🫶

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

command ls executes the ls program, even if an ls function also exists. (function says one thing, command says "girl, no" 💅)

command -s ls prints the path to the ls program. 🕵️‍♀️

command -q git; and command git log runs git log only if git exists. conditional queen behavior fr fr 👑

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. three different fits, same flawless result 💖✨

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👑 Copyright 👑

fish-shell developers

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 if you need me i'll be in the group chat — this manual came from the fish-shell crew, version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026. slay, bye bestie 💜🧚‍♀️