[Techtalk] show apps

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 31/07/04 00:05 -0400, Wolf Rising wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know a way to display all applications
> installed on a linux system? I believe ps
> will show what ones are running, but I like a list of all apps that
> are installed. Is this possible?
If you want only the applications installed via your package manager,
use the relevant package manager command. rpm -qa works for RPM.

If you want all executables [1] in your path, hit tab at a prompt twice.

[devdas at evita html]$
Display all 2980 possibilities? (y or n)

If you want all executable files on the system, use find(1)
find / -type f -perm +1 -print

find is your best friend when it comes to requirements like this.

Devdas Bhagat
[1] Having the executable bit set.