til/mise/search-through-bin-paths-for-tool-locations.md

Search Through Bin Paths For Tool Locations

The mise bin-paths command will list all the bin paths that are managed by mise. When you tell mise to install a tool, it installs a specific version at a location where its binaries can be made accessible on the system path.

While mise ls is useful for seeing what is installed by mise and at what version, the bin-paths command can tell you where those tool installations with their binaries are located.

Combine this with grep or rg to narrow down the results to tools by a specific name:

❯ mise bin-paths | rg 'neovim'
/Users/lastword/.local/share/mise/installs/npm-neovim/5.4.0/bin
/Users/lastword/.local/share/mise/installs/pipx-neovim-remote/2.5.1/bin
/Users/lastword/.local/share/mise/installs/neovim/0.11.6/bin

I can then look in one of these directories to see the one or more binaries that they include. For instance, here is what is in the node bin path:

❯ ls /Users/lastword/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.22.0/bin
 ./   ../   claude@   corepack@   node*   npm*   npx@

See mise bin-paths --help for more details.