[NTLUG:Discuss] Finding out what editors are available on my Linux system

[Mike]

On Thursday 08 May 2003 12:22 pm, Steve Baker wrote:
> jay linux wrote:
> > Is there a way to find out what editors (VI, EMACS,
> > etc) are available on my linux system?

Taking the reverse engineering approach.... 

Look at your path environment variable 
Type "$PATH[enter]" at a bash prompt

->>bash: 
/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/username

Doing an ls for each of the directories in your path will 
show ALL commands that will execute by name at the command 
line.  This is may not be a 100% complete list of 
executables on the box, but should cover all the editors in 
your system (altho you'll get thousands of other commands 
to wade thru as well.)

Try 
ls /usr/X11R6/bin > xfiles.txt
ls /usr/local/bin > local.txt
etc. 
then you can work thru the lists involved.