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
