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		pmarreck on March 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you ... this is new to me and has no man entry. what is it actually doing? listing all executables in PATH plus all callable functions?

bewuethr on March 18, 2022 [–]

It's a bash built-in, so the documentation lives in "help compgen", and the full blown bash manual.

pmarreck on March 18, 2022 | [–]

ah, very interesting!

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