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.

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