Command (Unix)

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command
Operating system	Unix and Unix-like
Type	Command

The command command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems is a utility to execute a command. It is specified in the POSIX standard. It is present in Unix shells as a shell builtin function. The argument(s) passed is a command with its arguments. The passed command is run with the normal shell function lookup suppressed.

Examples

In the following, the ls command is run without any shell functions or aliases that may exist with the same name:

$ command ls

External links

command – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 from The Open Group

v t e Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins
File system	cat chattr chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fuser ln ls mkdir mv pax pwd rm rmdir split tee touch type umask
Processes	at bg crontab fg kill nice ps time
User environment	env exit logname mesg talk tput uname who write
Text processing	awk basename comm csplit cut diff dirname ed ex fold head iconv join m4 more nl paste patch printf read sed sort strings tail tr troff uniq vi wc xargs
Shell builtins	alias cd echo test unset wait
Searching	find grep
Documentation	man
Software development	ar ctags lex make nm strip yacc
Miscellaneous	bc cal expr lp od sleep true and false
Categories Standard Unix programs Unix SUS2008 utilities List

command (Unix)

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