[clug] finding things on the path

[Mark Triggs]

Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at anu.edu.au> writes:

> I was trying to find variants of ping on the path, like: fping and 
> hping.  Is there a tool for this?

[...]

> Anyone think of a better way?

I don't know about "better", but I'll suggest this anyway.  The compgen
bash builtin seems to do the trick:

  $ compgen -A command -X '!*ping*'
  ping
  ping6
  
Cheers,

Mark

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Mark Triggs
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