How can I find all copies of an executable name in my PATH?

Question

I was looking for a way to enumerate all copies of an executable that are shadowed by the first one in my PATH. The best I could come up with is a function:

find_all_exec() {      for i in ${PATH//:/ }; do         find "$i/$1" 2> /dev/null     done }  $ find_all_exec python /usr/local/bin/python /usr/bin/python 

This gets me what I want (though it doesn't handle bash aliases/functions as type does). I was curious if there's a more built in way?

Answer 1

Try this builtin command:

which -a python