Timeline for Is there a tool for summarizing what all commands do?
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 0:16 | comment | added | user1404316 | apropos -s1 seems like a better answer, because it includes a one-line description of what each command does. What this answer does contribute is a list of aliases, functions, etc, but with no explanation of them it's of limited use, IMO. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ | |
| May 25, 2014 at 10:20 | comment | added | user | Of course, that wouldn't necessarily tell you if running those commands will do anything useful. Taking your disabled networks example, I suppose ping would still be listed as executable, but it wouldn't do you much good. Also, isn't this based on the user's current $PATH, meaning that if a command is not within one of the directories named as the search path it will never show up? | |
| May 21, 2014 at 14:20 | vote | accept | OneChillDude | ||
| May 19, 2014 at 15:03 | history | answered | Ramesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |