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how to list all the nodes of a package?

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asked 2012-10-12 04:41:53 -0600

roskidos
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I'm getting used to ROS and I've found several times commands have the following syntax:

command package_name package_node

then it raises a question "How can I list all the nodes of that package??" to use in such commands??

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Maybe I'm misinterpreting your question, but if you're talking about running commands in your shell, (like rosrun, roslaunch) tab auto-completion works with ROS commands too. Tabbing twice should give you all the options you can use.

thebyohazard ( 2012-10-12 05:03:24 -0600 )edit

rosrun robotino_navigation executables [args] -> I think that's only possible to search for all possible packages. In this case, when I tab again to find all the possible executables but it ROS cursor doesn't show these hints

roskidos ( 2012-10-12 05:47:30 -0600 )edit

@joq & @tbh: that solves half of my problem. Thank you!

roskidos ( 2012-10-12 20:35:44 -0600 )edit

Since you still have a problem, please edit your question to add additional information about it, or open a new question, whichever makes sense to you.

joq ( 2012-10-13 04:21:31 -0600 )edit

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answered 2012-10-12 06:15:09 -0600

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updated 2012-10-13 04:18:13 -0600

As @tbh said, shell auto-completion will list all the nodes by pressing the tab key twice like this:

$ rosrun package_name <tab><tab>

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This doesn't work on all platforms. i.e. Raspian doesn't support tab-completion.

Cerin ( 2017-02-05 21:49:42 -0600 )edit

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Tab completion works, but there should be a command for that.

bxl ( 2017-06-20 13:50:28 -0600 )edit

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Also: Doesn't this list the executable name, not the node name?

fabian ( 2020-11-05 12:30:35 -0600 )edit

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