[haiku] Re: How do I get a list of all terminal commands?

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:16:09 -0500

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 23:09, Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ls /bin will give you most command line programs
> That should work good.  :)
> Thanks
>
/boot/common/bin and /boot/home/config/bin may also contain goodies.

>> But anything executable on your path could be used
> I thought that might be the cased. :( Sad because I know this probably means
> there is not single command to list everything.
>
> I know Haiku's focus is the GUI, but... I wonder what about having some
> command that listed all programs+commands available on the path?  Anyways,
> thought I would ask; I just remember thinking how much more useful that
> would be. :)
>
In Terminal, you can press Tab twice.
It'll prompt you "Display all N possibilities? (y or n)"
This'll show you everything in PATH and bash's built-ins, eg, pushd, popd

and please don't top-post.

--mmadia

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