compgen

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Bash built-in command for generating possible completion matches in Bash. Usually used within custom completion functions. See also: `complete`, `compopt`.

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Examples (8)

List all shell built-ins, aliases, functions, and executables that you could run

compgen -c

List all commands that you could run that start with a specified string and save results to `$COMPREPLY`

compgen -V COMPREPLY -c str

Match against a wordlist

compgen -W "apple orange banana" a

List all aliases

compgen -a

List all functions that you could run

compgen -A function

Show shell reserved keywords

compgen -k

See all available commands/aliases starting with `ls`

compgen -ac ls

List all users on the system

compgen -u

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