On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 05:01:01AM -0500, 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?
IFS=':' ; find $PATH ! -type d | sed -e "s@^.*\/@@g" > file-list
There will probably not be 2320 files listed because this just lists
items in your path and not shell built-ins. This will show dupes too,
like stuff in /usr/bin that is duplicated in /usr/local/bin. Don't
pipe it through sed if you want to keep full path names.
> It would be a big help to me to know exactly what my choices are on
> this box so I could try out new stuff a little more often.
for a descriptive list of many programs (stuff in sections 1,6 and 8)
try:
man -k '.' | grep -E "\((1|6|8).?\)"
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