Tip #204 Find matching programs
Sometimes you want to find a program without knowing the full name. This can be done with the following one liner:IFS=: ; for D in $PATH; do for F in $D/*PATTERN*; do [ -x $F ] && echo $F; done; done
For example:
$ IFS=: ; for D in $PATH; do for F in $D/*text*; do [ -x $F ] && echo $F; done; done /usr/bin/gettext /usr/bin/glib-gettextize /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor /usr/bin/xgettext
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