Finding all the executables/binary in Linux rpm based distro.

2010-01-03 1 min read Linux
I have been thinking about this for quite sometime now, how to find all the executables on the linux system. One of the way is to do a ”ls” on all the directories in the PATH variable. But that will not list the executables that are outside of the PATH. So, I wrote this one liner : rpm -qal |agrep ”bin\/” > all_execs This will list all the files in the Linux system in bin or sbin directory and that should be pretty much all the binaries in the system. Continue reading