fish-shell/doc_src/contains.txt
Fabian Homborg ff47b2dad5 [docs] Some rewording to the builtins
Plus some additional examples.
2018-05-14 00:36:49 +02:00

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\section contains contains - test if a word is present in a list
\subsection contains-synopsis Synopsis
\fish{synopsis}
contains [OPTIONS] KEY [VALUES...]
\endfish
\subsection contains-description Description
`contains` tests whether the set `VALUES` contains the string `KEY`. If so, `contains` exits with status 0; if not, it exits with status 1.
The following options are available:
- `-i` or `--index` print the word index
Note that, like GNU tools and most of fish's builtins, `contains` interprets all arguments starting with a `-` as options to contains, until it reaches an argument that is `--` (two dashes). See the examples below.
\subsection contains-example Example
If $animals is a list of animals, the following will test if it contains a cat:
\fish
if contains cat $animals
echo Your animal list is evil!
end
\endfish
This code will add some directories to $PATH if they aren't yet included:
\fish
for i in ~/bin /usr/local/bin
if not contains $i $PATH
set PATH $PATH $i
end
end
\endfish
While this will check if `hasargs` was run with the `-q` option:
\fish
function hasargs
if contains -- -q $argv
echo '$argv contains a -q option'
end
end
\endfish
The `--` here stops `contains` from treating `-q` to an option to itself. Instead it treats it as a normal string to check.