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compgen

The compgen is bash built-in command and it will show all available commands, aliases, and functions for you. This command works under Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like system when Bash shell is installed. This command is intended to be used from within a shell function generating possible completions. If the optional CLI argument (WORDS) is supplied, it matches against the given WORDS.

List of commands for compgen:

- compgen
compgen:tldr:4d8c2 compgen: List all functions that you could run.

$ compgen -A function

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- compgen
compgen:tldr:63f37 compgen: Show shell reserved keywords.

$ compgen -k

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- compgen
compgen:tldr:684d4 compgen: See all available commands/aliases starting with 'ls'.

$ compgen -ac ${ls}

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- compgen
compgen:tldr:8578a compgen: List all commands that you could run.

$ compgen -c

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- compgen
compgen:tldr:85c2f compgen: List all aliases.

$ compgen -a

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