From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 30 09:18:27 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 16B68E1FB39 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:18:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.home.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FAB967932 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:18:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v8U8uQW7068857; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:56:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: Re: list of built-in tools To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon References: <59CEA922.3070408@gmail.com> <20170929221727.ddba4ff1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170930064846.b9544fc8be7abda477148471@sohara.org> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <74552c8a-f888-4915-fe49-69314c2b0acf@qeng-ho.org> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:56:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; 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=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 09:18:27 -0000 On 30/09/2017 06:48, 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. If my failing memory isn't lying to me, back in ancient times when Unix was on version 6, "man intro" did something like that. Of course, there were far less commands then, and the line printer listing of kernel+world was only about an inch thick. > Now where did I put those tuits. It's always difficult to find one's tuits, and only gets worse as you get older. -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).