How to get full list of Unity shader properties

Unity Engine
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I am quite new to shaders and have been searching for a full list of Unity shader properties. I haven’t found any such documentation. What I found was Unity - Manual: ShaderLab: defining material properties. Where can I find a full list of properties and their functions?

UPDATE

An example was given in above link showing the list of properties for a water shader namely, _WaveScale, _Fresnel, _BumpMap and so on. Knowing these specific properties make it easier to arrive at a solution. I recently tried coding something similar to a stroke before I found out about the following properties.

fixed _Stroke;
half4 _StrokeColor;
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There’s no “full list” as the properties names are completely arbitrary. “_Stroke” could be named “_MyFriendBob” or “_WaveScale” and still do the same thing as long as the shader code used that property to drive the stroke width.

Example of a very basic shader:

Shader "Solid Color Example 1"
{
    Properties
    {
       // define color property
        _Color("Color", Color) = (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert_img
            #pragma fragment frag
            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            // declare color property as a variable shader cares about
            float4 _Color;

            float4 frag(v2f_img i) : SV_Target
            {
                // tell shader to use color as what is drawn on the screen
                return _Color
            }
            ENDCG
        }
    }
}

And here’s another shader that works exactly the same, but with the property renamed:

Shader "Solid Color Example 2"
{
    Properties
    {
       // define color property
        _Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious("Something quite atrocious!", Color) = (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
    }

    SubShader
    {
        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert_img
            #pragma fragment frag
            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            // declare color property as a variable shader cares about
            float4 _Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious;

            float4 frag(v2f_img i) : SV_Target
            {
                // tell shader to use color as what is drawn on the screen
                return _Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
            }
            ENDCG
        }
    }
}

So to know what properties a shader has you need to look at the shader. And what those properties do (if anything at all!) is determined by the shader code itself.

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