On 01/12/2011 12:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I want a script which will output all the commands in linux starting
with a particular letter and their one line description (which comes
as the first line when doing man on that command).
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'Enter string to search for commands starting with: ' ch
echo
if [ -n "$ch" ]
then
cmdlist=$(echo /bin/${ch}* /usr/bin/${ch}* /sbin/${ch}* /usr/sbin/${ch}*)
tmpfile=$(mktemp /tmp/commandsearch.XXXXXXXX)
exec 3>$tmpfile
for cmd in $cmdlist
do
whatis $(echo $cmd | awk -F/ '{ print $NF; }') >&3 2>&3
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
cat $tmpfile
else
echo -n > $tmpfile
fi
done
exec 3>&-
fi
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