command - Run a simple command
Synopsis
command [ -p ] command_name [ argument ... ]
command [ -vV ] command_name
Description
You can use command to run command_name with the specified arguments with functions eliminated from the search order. If command_name is a special built-in utility, then it is treated as a regular built-in utility. Otherwise, the effect of command is the same as omitting command.
Note that command -v is equivalent to whence and command -V is equivalent to whence -v.
Options
- -p
- Perform the command search using a default value for the PATH variable that is guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities.
- -v
- Write a string that shows the path name or command used by qsh to invoke command_name in the current environment.
- -V
- Write a string that shows how command_name is interpreted by qsh in the current environment.
Operands
command_name is a utility in the current environment.
Exit status
- 0 when successful.
- >0 when unsuccessful.
- Run the export special built-in utility as a regular built-in utility: command export ALPHA
- Display the path name used to invoke the ls utility: command -v ls
- Display how the reserved word for is interpreted: command -V for