Help in bash seems to do most of what's actually needed. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 24 feb 2015 11:48 skrev "Hans J Albertsson" <hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com >:
> Powershell is a very good cmd language, so bash and other unix shells > might do well to adopt some ideas from there. > > Normally, cmd search is only done thru completion in Unix shells, which > was an idea from tops 20 exec on Digital Equipment mainframes and early > lisp machines. > Get-command does more than lexical completion, I think. > > Hans J. Albertsson > From my Nexus 5 > Den 24 feb 2015 06:11 skrev "Dan Douglas" <orm...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 >> >>
