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#! /bin/bash
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Description: find executables by name located in in the PATH
#              environment variable
#
# Author:  Artem S. Tashkinov <>
# Created at: Wed Jun 13 02:53:14 2001
#             2001-11-03 22:22:37 Changes unknown
#             Sat Mar  3 18:09:56 2018 Fix grep
#             Tue Jan 28 18:34:45 2020 rewritten to be safe
#
# Copyright (c) 2004-2020 Artem S. Tashkinov. All rights reserved.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

test -z "$1" && echo "Usage is `basename "$0"` name" && exit 1

echo "$PATH" | awk -F : '{ for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) print $i }' | while read -r cdir; do
    ls "$cdir" | grep -- "$1"
done | while read -r name; do
    /usr/bin/which "$name"
done | sort