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Bash Command Completion - Finding all the cats in your $PATH!

Raunak Ramakrishnan on November 15, 2018

Today, I was curious to find out how many programs ending with cat I had on my system. I remember using cat, zcat and wanted to know if there are s...
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John Robertson •

Find all executable files in your path ending with 'cat':

find ${PATH//:/ } -type f  -executable -name '*cat'
/usr/sbin/tarcat
/usr/sbin/postcat
/usr/bin/msgcat
/usr/bin/systemd-cat
/usr/bin/pacat
/usr/bin/gencat
/usr/bin/fc-cat
/usr/bin/precat
/usr/bin/pnmcat
/usr/bin/socat
/bin/zcat
/bin/bzcat
/bin/ntfscat
/bin/cat
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David Wickes •

apropos -s 1 'cat$'

Great use of man there.

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Raunak Ramakrishnan •

I also learned today that man -k is equivalent to apropos