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NAME
    command - Execute a simple command or display information about commands.

SYNOPSIS
    command [-pVv] command [arg ...]

DESCRIPTION
    Execute a simple command or display information about commands.
    
    Runs COMMAND with ARGS suppressing  shell function lookup, or display
    information about the specified COMMANDs.  Can be used to invoke commands
    on disk when a function with the same name exists.
    
    Options:
      -p    use a default value for PATH that is guaranteed to find all of
            the standard utilities
      -v    print a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
      -V    print a more verbose description of each COMMAND
    
    Exit Status:
    Returns exit status of COMMAND, or failure if COMMAND is not found.

SEE ALSO
    bash(1)

IMPLEMENTATION
    GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
    Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>