On man bash _kindly_ mention there is indeed a way to use the following, with no further ado, by adding the stuff in parentheses: dump-functions (bind -P) Print all... dump-variables (bind -V) Print all... dump-macros (bind -S) Print all... Otherwise we almost thought we had to make a binding just to run them once. (Yes, a lawyer could figure out the answers from reading the whole man page twice.)