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Asked: 2026-06-12T06:23:54+00:00

I guess it’s pretty simple. I just want to locate a bash command. For

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I guess it’s pretty simple.
I just want to locate a bash command. For example when I want to know which commands are existing, containing the phrase “user”.

So the command I am looking for should print me wether the location of all commands containing user, or it could just tell me which commands exist with the name. That would be fine though.

I searched here in so and on google, but well both of them just talk about the “find” command.

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    List of executable files or symlinks in your PATH that contain “user”:

    find $(echo $PATH | tr ':' ' ') -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -or -type l \) -name '*user*' -executable

    sample output:

    /usr/bin/users
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dir
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
/usr/bin/users-admin
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update
/bin/fuser
/bin/fusermount
/bin/ntfs-3g.usermap
/usr/sbin/deluser
/usr/sbin/adduser
/usr/sbin/useradd
/usr/sbin/userdel
/usr/sbin/usermod
/usr/sbin/newusers

    also a lot faster than wormsparty’s variant (no offence :P). Result almost identical (his returns directories too, AFAIK)

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