command
command — The name of an executable program or other software command.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
Attributes
Description
This element holds the name of an executable program or the text of a command that a user enters to execute a program.
A command
is an integral part of the
cmdsynopsis
environment as well as being a common
inline.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
This element occurs in 54 elements.
This element contains 29 elements.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example command</title> <para>In <acronym>UNIX</acronym>, <command>ls</command> is used to get a directory listing. </para> </article>
In UNIX, ls is used to get a directory listing.