|
Server IP : 161.35.85.9 / Your IP : 216.73.217.134 Web Server : nginx/1.30.1 System : Linux cheapdeb-ams3 7.0.9+deb14-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 7.0.9-1 (2026-05-22) x86_64 User : root ( 0) PHP Version : 8.2.18 Disable Function : NONE MySQL : OFF | cURL : ON | WGET : ON | Perl : ON | Python : ON Directory (0755) : /usr/share/java/../python3/../python/../python/../java/../python3/../doc/cpp/../fish/ |
| [ Home ] | [ C0mmand ] | [ Upload File ] |
|---|
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" data-content_root="./">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>Commands — fish-shell 4.7.1 documentation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_static/pygments.css?v=4da8bbd6" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_static/pydoctheme.css?v=f89b4716" />
<script src="_static/documentation_options.js?v=36689d04"></script>
<script src="_static/doctools.js?v=fd6eb6e6"></script>
<script src="_static/sphinx_highlight.js?v=6ffebe34"></script>
<link rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html" />
<link rel="search" title="Search" href="search.html" />
<link rel="next" title="_ - call fish’s translations" href="cmds/_.html" />
<link rel="prev" title="The fish language" href="language.html" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="_static/fish.png" />
</head><body><div id="fmain">
<div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="Related">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li><img src="_static/fish.png" alt=""
style="width: 80px; height: 80px; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li>
<li><a href="https://fishshell.com/">fish-shell</a> »</li>
<a href="index.html">fish-shell 4.7.1 documentation</a> »
<li class="nav-item nav-item-this"><a href="">Commands</a></li>
<li class="right">
<div class="inline-search" role="search">
<form class="inline-search" action="search.html" method="get">
<input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
</form>
</div>
</li>
<div id="old-docs-notice" style="display: none">
This documents an old version of fish.
<a href="../current/">See the latest release.</a>
</div>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="document">
<div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="Main">
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
<div>
<h3><a href="index.html">Documents</a></h3>
<ul class="current">
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="index.html">Introduction</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="faq.html">Frequently asked questions</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="interactive.html">Interactive use</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="language.html">The fish language</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">Commands</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fish_for_bash_users.html">Fish for bash users</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="tutorial.html">Tutorial</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="completions.html">Writing your own completions</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="prompt.html">Writing your own prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="design.html">Design</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="relnotes.html">Release notes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="terminal-compatibility.html">Terminal Compatibility</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="contributing.html">Contributing To Fish</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="license.html">License</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<search id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search">
<h3 id="searchlabel">Quick search</h3>
<div class="searchformwrapper">
<form class="search" action="search.html" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" aria-labelledby="searchlabel" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false"/>
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
</div>
</search>
<script>document.getElementById('searchbox').style.display = "block"</script>
<div>
<h4><a href="index.html">Sections</a></h4>
<ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Commands</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#keywords">Keywords</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tools">Tools</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#known-functions">Known functions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#helper-functions">Helper functions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#helper-commands">Helper commands</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#the-full-list">The full list</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="documentwrapper">
<div class="bodywrapper">
<div class="body" role="main">
<section id="commands">
<h1>Commands<a class="headerlink" href="#commands" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>This is a list of all the commands fish ships with.</p>
<p>Broadly speaking, these fall into a few categories:</p>
<section id="keywords">
<h2>Keywords<a class="headerlink" href="#keywords" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Core language keywords that make up the syntax, like</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/if.html"><span class="doc">if</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/else.html"><span class="doc">else</span></a> for conditions.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/for.html"><span class="doc">for</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/while.html"><span class="doc">while</span></a> for loops.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/break.html"><span class="doc">break</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/continue.html"><span class="doc">continue</span></a> to control loops.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/function.html"><span class="doc">function</span></a> to define functions.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/return.html"><span class="doc">return</span></a> to return a status from a function.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/begin.html"><span class="doc">begin</span></a> to begin a block and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/end.html"><span class="doc">end</span></a> to end any block (including ifs and loops).</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/and.html"><span class="doc">and</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/or.html"><span class="doc">or</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/not.html"><span class="doc">not</span></a> to combine commands logically.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/switch.html"><span class="doc">switch</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/case.html"><span class="doc">case</span></a> to make multiple blocks depending on the value of a variable.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/command.html"><span class="doc">command</span></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/builtin.html"><span class="doc">builtin</span></a> to tell fish what sort of thing to execute</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/time.html"><span class="doc">time</span></a> to time execution</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/exec.html"><span class="doc">exec</span></a> tells fish to replace itself with a command.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/end.html"><span class="doc">end</span></a> to end a block</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="tools">
<h2>Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#tools" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Builtins to do a task, like</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/cd.html"><span class="doc">cd</span></a> to change the current directory.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/echo.html"><span class="doc">echo</span></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/printf.html"><span class="doc">printf</span></a> to produce output.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/set_color.html"><span class="doc">set_color</span></a> to colorize output.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/set.html"><span class="doc">set</span></a> to set, query or erase variables.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/read.html"><span class="doc">read</span></a> to read input.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string.html"><span class="doc">string</span></a> for string manipulation.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/path.html"><span class="doc">path</span></a> for filtering paths and handling their components.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/math.html"><span class="doc">math</span></a> does arithmetic.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/argparse.html"><span class="doc">argparse</span></a> to make arguments easier to handle.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/count.html"><span class="doc">count</span></a> to count arguments.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/type.html"><span class="doc">type</span></a> to find out what sort of thing (command, builtin or function) fish would call, or if it exists at all.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/test.html"><span class="doc">test</span></a> checks conditions like if a file exists or a string is empty.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/contains.html"><span class="doc">contains</span></a> to see if a list contains an entry.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/eval.html"><span class="doc">eval</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/source.html"><span class="doc">source</span></a> to run fish code from a string or file.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/status.html"><span class="doc">status</span></a> to get shell information, like whether it’s interactive or a login shell, or which file it is currently running.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/abbr.html"><span class="doc">abbr</span></a> manages <a class="reference internal" href="interactive.html#abbreviations"><span class="std std-ref">Abbreviations</span></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/bind.html"><span class="doc">bind</span></a> to change bindings.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/complete.html"><span class="doc">complete</span></a> manages <a class="reference internal" href="interactive.html#tab-completion"><span class="std std-ref">completions</span></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/commandline.html"><span class="doc">commandline</span></a> to get or change the commandline contents.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_config.html"><span class="doc">fish_config</span></a> to easily change fish’s configuration, like the prompt or colorscheme.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/random.html"><span class="doc">random</span></a> to generate random numbers or pick from a list.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="known-functions">
<h2>Known functions<a class="headerlink" href="#known-functions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Known functions are a customization point. You can change them to change how your fish behaves. This includes:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_prompt</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_right_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_right_prompt</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_mode_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_mode_prompt</span></a> to print your prompt.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_command_not_found.html"><span class="doc">fish_command_not_found</span></a> to tell fish what to do when a command is not found.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_title.html"><span class="doc">fish_title</span></a> to change the terminal’s title.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_tab_title.html"><span class="doc">fish_tab_title</span></a> to change the terminal tab’s title.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_greeting.html"><span class="doc">fish_greeting</span></a> to show a greeting when fish starts.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_should_add_to_history.html"><span class="doc">fish_should_add_to_history</span></a> to determine if a command should be added to history</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="helper-functions">
<h2>Helper functions<a class="headerlink" href="#helper-functions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Some helper functions, often to give you information for use in your prompt:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_git_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_git_prompt</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_hg_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_hg_prompt</span></a> to print information about the current git or mercurial repository.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_vcs_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_vcs_prompt</span></a> to print information for either.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_svn_prompt.html"><span class="doc">fish_svn_prompt</span></a> to print information about the current svn repository.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_status_to_signal.html"><span class="doc">fish_status_to_signal</span></a> to give a signal name from a return status.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prompt_pwd.html"><span class="doc">prompt_pwd</span></a> to give the current directory in a nicely formatted and shortened way.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prompt_login.html"><span class="doc">prompt_login</span></a> to describe the current login, with user and hostname, and to explain if you are in a chroot or connected via ssh.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prompt_hostname.html"><span class="doc">prompt_hostname</span></a> to give the hostname, shortened for use in the prompt.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_is_root_user.html"><span class="doc">fish_is_root_user</span></a> to check if the current user is an administrator user like root.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_add_path.html"><span class="doc">fish_add_path</span></a> to easily add a path to $PATH.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/alias.html"><span class="doc">alias</span></a> to quickly define wrapper functions (“aliases”).</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_delta.html"><span class="doc">fish_delta</span></a> to show what you have changed from the default configuration.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/export.html"><span class="doc">export</span></a> as a compatibility function for other shells.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="helper-commands">
<h2>Helper commands<a class="headerlink" href="#helper-commands" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>fish also ships some things as external commands so they can be easily called from elsewhere.</p>
<p>This includes <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_indent.html"><span class="doc">fish_indent</span></a> to format fish code and <a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_key_reader.html"><span class="doc">fish_key_reader</span></a> to show you what escape sequence a keypress produces.</p>
</section>
<section id="the-full-list">
<h2>The full list<a class="headerlink" href="#the-full-list" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>And here is the full list:</p>
<div class="toctree-wrapper compound">
<ul>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/_.html">_ - call fish’s translations</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/abbr.html">abbr - manage fish abbreviations</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/alias.html">alias - create a function</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/and.html">and - conditionally execute a command</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/argparse.html">argparse - parse options passed to a fish script or function</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/begin.html">begin - start a new block of code</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/bg.html">bg - send jobs to background</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/bind.html">bind - handle fish key bindings</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/block.html">block - temporarily block delivery of events</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/break.html">break - stop the current inner loop</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/breakpoint.html">breakpoint - launch debug mode</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/builtin.html">builtin - run a builtin command</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/case.html">case - conditionally execute a block of commands</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/cd.html">cd - change directory</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/cdh.html">cdh - change to a recently visited directory</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/command.html">command - run a program</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/commandline.html">commandline - set or get the current command line buffer</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/complete.html">complete - edit command-specific tab-completions</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/contains.html">contains - test if a word is present in a list</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/continue.html">continue - skip the remainder of the current iteration of the current inner loop</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/count.html">count - count the number of elements of a list</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/dirh.html">dirh - print directory history</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/dirs.html">dirs - print directory stack</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/disown.html">disown - remove a process from the list of jobs</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/echo.html">echo - display a line of text</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/else.html">else - execute command if a condition is not met</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/emit.html">emit - emit a generic event</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/end.html">end - end a block of commands</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/eval.html">eval - evaluate the specified commands</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/exec.html">exec - execute command in current process</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/exit.html">exit - exit the shell</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/export.html">export - compatibility function for exporting variables</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/false.html">false - return an unsuccessful result</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fg.html">fg - bring job to foreground</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish.html">fish - the friendly interactive shell</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_add_path.html">fish_add_path - add to the path</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_breakpoint_prompt.html">fish_breakpoint_prompt - define the prompt when stopped at a breakpoint</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_clipboard_copy.html">fish_clipboard_copy - copy text to the system’s clipboard</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_clipboard_paste.html">fish_clipboard_paste - get text from the system’s clipboard</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_command_not_found.html">fish_command_not_found - what to do when a command wasn’t found</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_config.html">fish_config - start the web-based configuration interface</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_default_key_bindings.html">fish_default_key_bindings - set emacs key bindings for fish</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_delta.html">fish_delta - compare functions and completions to the default</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_git_prompt.html">fish_git_prompt - output git information for use in a prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_greeting.html">fish_greeting - display a welcome message in interactive shells</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_hg_prompt.html">fish_hg_prompt - output Mercurial information for use in a prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_indent.html">fish_indent - indenter and prettifier</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_is_root_user.html">fish_is_root_user - check if the current user is root</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_key_reader.html">fish_key_reader - explore what characters keyboard keys send</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_mode_prompt.html">fish_mode_prompt - define the appearance of the mode indicator</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_opt.html">fish_opt - create an option specification for the argparse command</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_prompt.html">fish_prompt - define the appearance of the command line prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_right_prompt.html">fish_right_prompt - define the appearance of the right-side command line prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_should_add_to_history.html">fish_should_add_to_history - decide whether a command should be added to the history</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_status_to_signal.html">fish_status_to_signal - convert exit codes to human-friendly signals</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_svn_prompt.html">fish_svn_prompt - output Subversion information for use in a prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_tab_title.html">fish_tab_title - define the terminal tab’s title</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_title.html">fish_title - define the terminal’s title</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_update_completions.html">fish_update_completions - update completions using manual pages</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_vcs_prompt.html">fish_vcs_prompt - output version control system information for use in a prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/fish_vi_key_bindings.html">fish_vi_key_bindings - set vi key bindings for fish</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/for.html">for - perform a set of commands multiple times</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/funced.html">funced - edit a function interactively</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/funcsave.html">funcsave - save the definition of a function to the user’s autoload directory</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/function.html">function - create a function</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/functions.html">functions - print or erase functions</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/help.html">help - display fish documentation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/history.html">history - show and manipulate command history</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/if.html">if - conditionally execute a command</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/isatty.html">isatty - test if a file descriptor is a terminal</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/jobs.html">jobs - print currently running jobs</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/math.html">math - perform mathematics calculations</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/nextd.html">nextd - move forward through directory history</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/not.html">not - negate the exit status of a job</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/open.html">open - open file in its default application</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/or.html">or - conditionally execute a command</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/path.html">path - manipulate and check paths</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/popd.html">popd - move through directory stack</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prevd.html">prevd - move backward through directory history</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/printf.html">printf - display text according to a format string</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prompt_hostname.html">prompt_hostname - print the hostname, shortened for use in the prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prompt_login.html">prompt_login - describe the login suitable for prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/prompt_pwd.html">prompt_pwd - print pwd suitable for prompt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/psub.html">psub - perform process substitution</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/pushd.html">pushd - push directory to directory stack</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/pwd.html">pwd - output the current working directory</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/random.html">random - generate random number</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/read.html">read - read line of input into variables</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/realpath.html">realpath - convert a path to an absolute path without symlinks</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/return.html">return - stop the current inner function</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/set.html">set - display and change shell variables</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/set_color.html">set_color - set the terminal color</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/source.html">source - evaluate contents of file</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/status.html">status - query fish runtime information</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string.html">string - manipulate strings</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-collect.html">string-collect - join strings into one</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-escape.html">string-escape - escape special characters</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-join.html">string-join - join strings with delimiter</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-join0.html">string-join0 - join strings with zero bytes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-length.html">string-length - print string lengths</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-lower.html">string-lower - convert strings to lowercase</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-match.html">string-match - match substrings</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-pad.html">string-pad - pad strings to a fixed width</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-repeat.html">string-repeat - multiply a string</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-replace.html">string-replace - replace substrings</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-shorten.html">string-shorten - shorten strings to a width, with an ellipsis</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-split.html">string-split - split strings by delimiter</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-split0.html">string-split0 - split on zero bytes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-sub.html">string-sub - extract substrings</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-trim.html">string-trim - remove trailing whitespace</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-unescape.html">string-unescape - expand escape sequences</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/string-upper.html">string-upper - convert strings to uppercase</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/suspend.html">suspend - suspend the current shell</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/switch.html">switch - conditionally execute a block of commands</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/test.html">test - perform tests on files and text</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/time.html">time - measure how long a command or block takes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/trap.html">trap - perform an action when the shell receives a signal</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/true.html">true - return a successful result</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/type.html">type - locate a command and describe its type</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/ulimit.html">ulimit - set or get resource usage limits</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/umask.html">umask - set or get the file creation mode mask</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/vared.html">vared - interactively edit the value of an environment variable</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/wait.html">wait - wait for jobs to complete</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="cmds/while.html">while - perform a set of commands multiple times</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="Related">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li><img src="_static/fish.png" alt=""
style="width: 80px; height: 80px; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li>
<li><a href="https://fishshell.com/">fish-shell</a> »</li>
<a href="index.html">fish-shell 4.7.1 documentation</a> »
<li class="nav-item nav-item-this"><a href="">Commands</a></li>
<li class="right">
<div class="inline-search" role="search">
<form class="inline-search" action="search.html" method="get">
<input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
</form>
</div>
</li>
<div id="old-docs-notice" style="display: none">
This documents an old version of fish.
<a href="../current/">See the latest release.</a>
</div>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="footer">
© Copyright fish-shell developers.
<br />
<a href="https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues">Found a bug</a>?
<br />
Created using <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 9.1.0.
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
FISH_DOCS_VERSION = "4.7";
function copy_to_clipboard(it) {
// Find the pre tag we're interested in.
var pre = it.target;
while (pre.tagName != "PRE") pre = pre.parentNode;
var txt = "";
// Cheesy: If we have a prompt,
// we only copy prompted lines,
// by splitting and matching and stuff
if (pre.querySelector('span.gp')) {
var texts= [];
for (var line of pre.innerText.split('\n')) {
if (line.match(/^>_?.*/)) {
texts.push(line.replace(/^>_?/, ""));
}
}
txt = texts.join("\n");
} else {
// Even cheesier: If we don't have a prompt, we remove the button text from the end.
var txt = pre.innerText.substring(0, pre.innerText.length - it.target.innerText.length).trim();
}
navigator.clipboard.writeText(txt).then(function() {
// Success - set the text to indicate it,
// then set it back after 2 seconds.
var span = pre.querySelector("button span");
if (span) {
var oldText = span.innerText;
span.innerText = "COPIED!";
setTimeout(function() {
span.innerText = oldText;
}, 2000);
}
}, function() {
});
}
(function () {
// Add copy buttons to all the codeblocks.
var codeblocks = document.querySelectorAll('div > pre');
var button = document.createElement('button');
var span = document.createElement('span');
span.innerText = "COPY";
button.appendChild(span);
for (var i of codeblocks) {
var newButton = button.cloneNode(true);
newButton.addEventListener('click', copy_to_clipboard);
i.appendChild(newButton);
}
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>