1count(1)                             fish                             count(1)
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6       count -  "count - Count the number of elements of an array"
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8   Synopsis
9       count $VARIABLE
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11   Description
12       count prints the number of arguments that were passed to it. This is
13       usually used to find out how many elements an environment variable
14       array contains, but this is not the only potential usage for the count
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17       The count command does not accept any options, not even '-h'. This way
18       the user does not have to worry about an array containing elements such
19       as dashes. fish performs a special check when invoking the count
20       program, and if the user uses a help option, this help page is
21       displayed, but if a help option is contained inside of a variable or is
22       the result of expansion, it will be passed on to the count program.
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24       Count exits with a non-zero exit status if no arguments where passed to
25       it, with zero otherwise.
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27   Example
28       count $PATH
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30       returns the number of directories in the users PATH variable.
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32       count *.txt
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34       returns the number of files in the current working directory ending
35       with the suffix '.txt'.
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39Version 1.21.12                   4 Sep 2006                          count(1)