fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/contains.rst
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.. _cmd-contains:
contains - test if a word is present in a list
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Synopsis
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.. synopsis::
contains [OPTIONS] KEY [VALUES ...]
Description
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``contains`` tests whether the set *VALUES* contains the string *KEY*.
If so, ``contains`` exits with code 0; if not, it exits with code 1.
The following options are available:
**-i** or **--index**
Print the index (number of the element in the set) of the first matching element.
**-h** or **--help**
Displays help about using this command.
Note that ``contains`` interprets all arguments starting with a **-** as an option to ``contains``, until an **--** argument is reached.
See the examples below.
Example
-------
If *animals* is a list of animals, the following will test if *animals* contains "cat":
::
if contains cat $animals
echo Your animal list is evil!
end
This code will add some directories to :envvar:`PATH` if they aren't yet included:
::
for i in ~/bin /usr/local/bin
if not contains $i $PATH
set PATH $PATH $i
end
end
While this will check if function ``hasargs`` is being ran with the **-q** option:
::
function hasargs
if contains -- -q $argv
echo '$argv contains a -q option'
end
end
The **--** here stops ``contains`` from treating **-q** to an option to itself.
Instead it treats it as a normal string to check.