You can also use grep to search compgen’s output quickly.Ģ. To list all available Terminal commands (and command aliases) instantaneously, type in compgen -ac and press “Enter.” What if you don’t want to see a list of commands in the terminal window, but you want to produce a text file containing all of the available Terminal commands? You can use compgen to generate a list of all available commands and then send the result of the command to a new text file. Generating a List of Commands with Compgen # You can also continue pressing the “Enter” key until you’ve scrolled through all the commands, at which point you’ll be automatically returned to the command prompt. To return to the command prompt, press “Control + C” or the “Delete” key to exit the list of available commands. There’s no way to navigate backwards, so read slowly. You can navigate down the list line by line by pressing the “Enter” key. Terminal will now list all of the available commands in alphabetical order. Note that the exact number of available commands will vary based on your installation, but it should be approximately 1400. When you see the prompt that says “Display all 1456 possibilities?” press the “Y” key.
Hold down the “Escape” key (or button on a MacBook Pro Touchbar) for a second or two. Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
Viewing All Available Terminal Commands #
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