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When I press tab in a console I get this output

Display all 2957 possibilities? (y or n)

Is there any way to use grep on these 2957 possibilities? I would like to search for all commands with the word "svn" in them.

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answered 1 Year ago onbean · Accepted Answer

The solution is the bash builtin compgen. To grep 'svn' from all available commands and command aliases accessible through $PATH, type.

compgen -ac | grep svn

Want to search from a certain prefix (eg all commands that start with ecrypt)? Use regular expressions..

compgen -ac | grep "^ecrypt"