<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre wrap="">Do it yourself: for f in {,/usr}/{,s}bin/[0-9a-zA-Z]*;do n=${f##*/};whatis $n| grep -e "^$n (1)" -e "^$n (8)";done|sort|uniq|less This lists all commands found in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin on your machine. It may not be perfect and the builtin shell commands are not listed. Beware: Don't redirect it to your printer - that's several thousand lines if you have many packages installed. </pre> Thanks Nils did you write that script off the top of your head? got my brain going working out exactly what it was doing anyway. Shoved the output into a file for future reference. brian </body> </html>