Here, I made a short shell script to show all the results with package descriptions (requires enabling the "nix" command): #!/bin/sh results="$(nix-loc

Here, I made a short shell script to show all the results with package descriptions (requires enabling the "nix" command): #!/bin/sh results="$(nix-locate -1 --regex --top-level "^/bin/${1}\$")" for item in $results; do nix search "nixpkgs#${item%.*}" done Example: $ ./nix-find-executable.sh python3 * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.qtile (0.22.1) A small, flexible, scriptable tiling window manager written in Python * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python3Minimal (3.10.8) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python311 (3.11.1) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python38 (3.8.16) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python37 (3.7.16) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python3Full (3.10.8) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python38Full (3.8.16) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.sourcehut.python (3.10.8) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python39Full (3.9.15) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python39 (3.9.15) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.python37Full (3.7.16) A high-level dynamically-typed programming language * legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.ihaskell