Shell command 'command'.
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+
+* Shell command.
+
+** command.
+
+Main semantic is to invoke command instead defined function with same name:
+
+ $ ls() { ls --color "$@"; }
+ $ ls # infinitely loop as func invoke itself
+ $ ls() { command ls --color "$@"; }
+ $ ls . # invoke /bin/ls with color output
+ $ unset ls # forget func definition
+ $ ls # invoke /bin/ls without color output
+
+With '-p' arg Perform the command search using a default value for PATH that
+is guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities:
+
+ $ command -p getconf PATH
+
+
+With '-v' arg work like 'which' command which not included in POSIX:
+
+ $ command -v ls
+/usr/bin/ls
+ $ command -v echo # for build-in command print command itself
+echo # you can check for equality or for slash to
+ # distinguish from utilities