command - Treats command arguments as simple commands
command [-p] command_name [argument...]
command [-v | -V] command_name
The command command causes the shell to treat the arguments
to command as simple commands, and suppresses the
default shell function lookup.
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to
industry standards as follows:
command: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information
about industry standards and associated tags.
Performs the command search using a default value for PATH
that is guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities.
Writes a string to standard output that indicates the path
name or command to be used by the shell in the current
shell execution environment to invoke command_name.
Writes a string to standard output that indicates how the
name given in the command_name operand will be interpreted
by the shell in the current shell execution environment.
The command command allows you to run the following commands:
User-defined commands whose names correspond to
shell built-in commands. System commands whose names correspond
to shell built-in commands.
The command_name argument specifies the name of a utility.
The one or more optional arguments to command_name specify
strings treated as arguments to the specified utility. It
also provides information concerning how a command name
will be interpreted by the shell.
[Tru64 UNIX] If command_name is not the name of a function,
the effect of command is the same as would be
obtained by specifying command_name without command.
Since the -v and -V options to command produce output in
relation to the current shell execution environment, if
command is called in a subshell or separate utility execution
environment, it may not produce correct results. The
following are examples of this type of operation:
(PATH=foo command -v) nohup command -v
When the -v or -V options are specified, command returns
one of the following values. Successful completion. The
command_name could not be found, or an error occurred.
If the -v or -V options are not specified, command returns
one of the following values on error. The utility specified
by command_name was found but could not be invoked.
An error occurred in the command command, or the utility
specified by the command_name argument could not be
invoked.
If no error occurs, the exit status of command is that of
the command specified by the arguments to command.
To ensure execution of the simple command pwd instead of
the pwd shell built-in command, enter the following: command
-p pwd
The preceding command displays the full path name of the
current directory, and does not perpetuate a view of the
current directory location created by links as the shell
built-in command might do.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES [Toc] [Back] The following environment variables affect the execution
of command: Provides a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. If LANG is
unset or null, the corresponding value from the default
locale is used. If any of the internationalization variables
contains an invalid setting, the utility behaves as
if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a
non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the
other internationalization variables. Determines the
locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of
text data as characters (for example, single-byte as
opposed to multibyte characters in arguments). Determines
the locale that should be used to affect the format and
contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing
of LC_MESSAGES. Determines the search path used
during the command search unless the -p option is specified.
Commands: env(1), hash(1), type(1)
Standards: standards(5)
command(1)
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