Re: [SLUG] How can I ...

From: Norbert Cartagena (niccademous@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2001 - 09:39:43 EST


Bill wrote:

> Sluggers ...
>
> When I hit the tab key at the command line, Linux offers to feed me a
> list of 2320 command possibilities. Is there some way to re-direct
> this list to a file? If not, is there another way to get the list
> that CAN be sent to a file?
>

This is a long way to do it, but right off the bat, I can't think of
another way:

1) Type "echo $PATH"
2) ls -C /dir1/bin dir2/bin /dir3/bin [whatever] | cat > list.txt
(-C will make it all nice and purdy)
3) Then simply view the list "emacs list.txt

Gnorb

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