list of commands & utilities [WAS: change file names]

[Kevin D. Clark]

Zhao Peng writes:

> With the recent "change file names" experience, I'm wondering if there
> is a simply way to get a comprehensive list of A*L*L available
> commands & utilities on a given linux OS.(Mine is Red Hat
> Enterprise). If so, how?

Assuming you're using bash, press tab -- twice.

> If I have the list, I definitely will go through it to see if I could
> find any command/utility which might be helpful for solving my
> problem, before I post any question here.

My previous answer was unhelpful, but you're asking a difficult
question.

Might I suggest instead that you read the associated documentation for
these things?:

  bash, tr, sed, awk, test, perl, cut, sort, uniq, mv, cp, find,
  grep, ssh, scp, tar, gzip, bzip2, fortune


I'm sure that I missed quite a few things here, but this prunes the
list down by quite a bit.  Still, if you want to be familiar with
command line tools, these are a good place to start.  You can't go
wrong by fully grokking what these things do.

Kind regards,

--kevin
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