no loop, only one call of grep, scrollable ("less is more", more or less...)
compgen -c finds everything in your path. Show Sample Output
The whatis command displays a short description for the command you list on the command line. It is useful to quickly learn what a command does Show Sample Output
Get simple description on each file from /bin dir, in list form, usefull for newbies. Show Sample Output
Just realized how needless the 'ls' has been... This version is also multilingual, since there is no need to grep for a special key word ("nothing"/"nichts"/"rien"/"nada"...). And it makes use of all the available horizontal space. Show Sample Output
I like it sorted... 2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.
Many times I give the same commands in loop to find informations about a file. I use this as an alias to summarize that informations in a single command. Now with variables! :D Show Sample Output
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