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Yogesh Umesh Vaity
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I'm reading a book, Learning Unix for OS X by Dave Taylor. It says:

To quickly see all of the binary executables—Unix programs—on your system,

Open the Terminal, hold down the Shift key, and press Esc-?, or press Control-X followed by Shift-1 (using Shift-1 to get an exclamation mark).

Before the commands are displayed in the Terminal, however, you’ll first be prompted (asked) to make a choice:

$ 
Display all 1453 possibilities? (y or n)

If you press the nn key on your keyboard, you’ll be taken back to a command prompt and nothing else will happen. However, if you press the yy key,you’ll you’ll see a multicol‐ umnmulti-column list of Unix commands stream past in the Terminal window.

However, the problem is, when I hold down Shift key and press Esc-? nothing happens. Same for Pressing Control-X followed by Shift-1. What am I doing wrong? Is there any setting that I need to enable before using this feature? I'm using iTerm2 on Mac El Capitan. It doesn't work on the stock terminal either. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I'm reading a book, Learning Unix for OS X by Dave Taylor. It says:

To quickly see all of the binary executables—Unix programs—on your system,

Open the Terminal, hold down the Shift key, and press Esc-?, or press Control-X followed by Shift-1 (using Shift-1 to get an exclamation mark).

Before the commands are displayed in the Terminal, however, you’ll first be prompted (asked) to make a choice:

$ 
Display all 1453 possibilities? (y or n)

If you press the n key on your keyboard, you’ll be taken back to a command prompt and nothing else will happen. However, if you press the y key,you’ll see a multicol‐ umn list of Unix commands stream past in the Terminal window.

However, the problem is, when I hold down Shift key and press Esc-? nothing happens. Same for Pressing Control-X followed by Shift-1. What am I doing wrong? Is there any setting that I need to enable before using this feature? I'm using iTerm2 on Mac El Capitan. It doesn't work on the stock terminal either. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I'm reading a book, Learning Unix for OS X by Dave Taylor. It says:

To quickly see all of the binary executables—Unix programs—on your system,

Open the Terminal, hold down the Shift key, and press Esc-?, or press Control-X followed by Shift-1 (using Shift-1 to get an exclamation mark).

Before the commands are displayed in the Terminal, however, you’ll first be prompted (asked) to make a choice:

$ 
Display all 1453 possibilities? (y or n)

If you press the n key on your keyboard, you’ll be taken back to a command prompt and nothing else will happen. However, if you press the y key, you’ll see a multi-column list of Unix commands stream past in the Terminal window.

However, the problem is, when I hold down Shift key and press Esc-? nothing happens. Same for Pressing Control-X followed by Shift-1. What am I doing wrong? Is there any setting that I need to enable before using this feature? I'm using iTerm2 on Mac El Capitan. It doesn't work on the stock terminal either. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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Yogesh Umesh Vaity
Yogesh Umesh Vaity
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How to display all the unix commands available on the system?

I'm reading a book, Learning Unix for OS X by Dave Taylor. It says:

To quickly see all of the binary executables—Unix programs—on your system,

Open the Terminal, hold down the Shift key, and press Esc-?, or press Control-X followed by Shift-1 (using Shift-1 to get an exclamation mark).

Before the commands are displayed in the Terminal, however, you’ll first be prompted (asked) to make a choice:

$ 
Display all 1453 possibilities? (y or n)

If you press the n key on your keyboard, you’ll be taken back to a command prompt and nothing else will happen. However, if you press the y key,you’ll see a multicol‐ umn list of Unix commands stream past in the Terminal window.

However, the problem is, when I hold down Shift key and press Esc-? nothing happens. Same for Pressing Control-X followed by Shift-1. What am I doing wrong? Is there any setting that I need to enable before using this feature? I'm using iTerm2 on Mac El Capitan. It doesn't work on the stock terminal either. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.