[robg adds: This only worked for me in the bash shell, and I've installed a few extras, so I see 1,023 possibilities on my client install.]
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If you hold the ESC key for more than 3 seconds in terminal, you will be prompted with Display all 870 possibilities? (if you're using Panther Client) or Display all 963 possibilities? (if you're on Server). Type y, and you will see a list of all BSD commands.
[robg adds: This only worked for me in the bash shell, and I've installed a few extras, so I see 1,023 possibilities on my client install.]
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10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
You can get the same thing using tab completion (in bash at least). During typing, you can hit tab, and it will autocomplete what you are typing based on context. If there are mulltiple completions possible, it will just beep at you. You can then hit tab twice and it will show you the possible options. Hitting tab twice on a blank line will show you all available because it is trying to auto-complete what you haven't typed yet.
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
not just a panter hint. works in jaguar as well.
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
In tcsh, you can type command x, then command d to display all of the commands. Jaguar 10.2.8 and earlier.
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
I think you mean control-x and control-d
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
Doesn't work for me in tcsh (using control). Am I missing something?
It's a competition!
I get 1612 possibilities!
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
1905....but I don't use them all :)
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
This just seems to be equivalent to the "Tab" key auto completion feature in the bash shell. You can even filter the list by typing a few letters of the command you are interested in.
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
In zsh, you can type backslash followed by the tab command and it will list all possibilities of executables in your path and shell commands.
Installing WTF
That's great. If you don't have it on your system, you can get it from fink:
sudo fink install wtf
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
Did not get the Show All Commands by pressing TAB or ESC twice in the Panther default shell.
Just hit 'tab' twice
In my bash shell (ever since 10.1, I think), just hitting tab twice prompts to show me all programs.
Just hit 'tab' twice
Oh, and if it's a competition, I'm at 2101 possible commands. I'm sure someone can beat that, though. :-)
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
If you want a list with descriptions that you can save to a file try this:
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
For those (like myself) who prefer tcsh, the same thing can be done using CONTROL-D. For example, typing "m" followed by ^D will show you all commands starting with m... or "mk^D" shows all commands starting with "mk".
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
Have you tried ctl-X ctl-D ?
10.3: See all possible BSD commands in the Terminal
This is not completely true, and is not a panther feature. All *NIX OS's with the bash shell, or variants of, have this capability. Also, you are only seeing commands that are in your path. If your path is anything but default, new software added, complied, etc, you see what that shell has a path to execute. |
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