From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 30 06:18:08 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBB9E0F8FF for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:18:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) Received: from barracuda.ssimicro.com (barracuda.ssimicro.com [96.46.39.196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ssimicro.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA65F63879 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:18:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1506752284-08e7172d0b5ca0e0001-jLrpzn Received: from mail.ssimicro.com (mail.ssimicro.com [64.247.129.10]) by barracuda.ssimicro.com with ESMTP id F6464jkgRLsLKxQb (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 02:18:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: markham@ssimicro.com X-Barracuda-Effective-Source-IP: mail.ssimicro.com[64.247.129.10] X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 64.247.129.10 Received: from Markhams-MBP.lan (64-247-138-144.ssimicro.com [64.247.138.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ssimicro.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v8U6I310075696 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:18:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ssimicro.com: Host 64-247-138-144.ssimicro.com [64.247.138.144] claimed to be Markhams-MBP.lan Subject: Re: list of built-in tools To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: list of built-in tools References: <59CEA922.3070408@gmail.com> <20170929221727.ddba4ff1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170930064846.b9544fc8be7abda477148471@sohara.org> From: markham breitbach Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:18:03 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170930064846.b9544fc8be7abda477148471@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Barracuda-Connect: mail.ssimicro.com[64.247.129.10] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1506752285 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 X-Barracuda-URL: https://barracuda.ssimicro.com:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 1079 X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at ssimicro.com X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=5.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.43471 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:18:09 -0000 This is a pretty good start: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/unix-in-a/0596100299/ -M On 2017-09-29 11:48 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:17:27 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:12:18 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: >>> Looking for a list or index of all the basic system utilities. >>> >>> Like uniq, rev, tr and so on. >>> >>> Are they documented someplace? >> Implicitely documented - "ls /usr/bin". ;-) > Better ls /usr/share/man/man1 > >> On the web, there are several blog pages or texts on Github >> which explain how to use this kind of tools, but FreeBSD does >> not (as far as I'm aware of) contain a kind of list that covers >> text processing tools provided by the OS. > This is one of the longest standing weaknesses of unix > documentation, there are no entry points. Somebody should make a simple > index page of all the commands with a one liner description and a man page > - bonus for splitting them by category. > > Now where did I put those tuits. >