A look at bash internals: compgen

Posted by linuxaria on Jul 24, 2012 3:38 AM EDT
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The compgen builtin command expands a list of arguments to generate completion matches, so it allows us to display the commands, functions, directories and aliases available for the current user. In short compgen is a command that displays commands.

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