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if I open a terminal and hit [TAB] [TAB] it will display "Display all 2583 possibilities? (y or n) ". If I press y is there a way to capture the output and write it to a file?
Not like it is a command so I can't just use a redirect to a file? If not I guess I could just do an ls on all locations of $PATH and capture that to a file.
I think that you will find that all the 'commands' listed equate to all the files in /bin and /usr/bin - I believe that these are determined by your path setting. Type $PATH in a terminal/console to see what your bash settings are. Therefore, a simple listing to a text file will accomplish what you appear to want, try:
On my system that lists ANYTHING with an x-flag, that includes directories....
That's strange. The -c option should limit the result to command names. I've just tried the compgen command on different systems (OpenSuse, CentOS, Vectorlinux) and it gives the list of commands only. Hmmm... I should investigate...
Last edited by colucix; 01-31-2010 at 04:09 AM.
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