On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Dan Douglas <orm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:50 PM, <garegi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How do you search for commands? In powershell you have the get-command > cmdlet. Is there anything equivalent in unix? > > Depends on the type of command. For shell builtins, bash has `help': > > $ help '*ad' > Shell commands matching keyword `*ad' > > read: read [-ers] [-a array] [-d delim] [-i text] [-n nchars] [-N > nchars] [-p prompt] [-t timeout] [-u fd] [name ...] > Read a line from the standard input and split it into fields. > ... > > To search for commands found in PATH (or functions or aliases) use > `type'. See `help type' for how to use it. > > Searching for commands by package is OS-specific. e.g. in Gentoo > `equery f -f cmd pkg' will show "commands" belonging to a package. > Cygwin's equivalent is `cygcheck -l'. Pretty much every distro has > something similar. > > -- > Dan Douglas > > There's also "compgen -c" that will list all things that bash things as a "command" (which includes things like if), it lists the possible completion so you can also list everything starting with a "f" with "compgen -c f" (also there's help-b...@gnu.org for these kind of questions)
