[Gllug] Grepping tab-completions

[Russell Howe]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:25:00AM +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to remember the command that will let me use KDE io-slaves
> from bash, and I think it starts with 'k' and contains 'exec'. So what
> I'd like to do is pipe the names of all the commands available on my
> path that begin with 'k' through grep, but haven't a clue how.
> 
> What's an easy way to search the path like this?

Under bash:

$ find ${PATH//:/ } -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'k*exec'

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