Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:17:27 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: list of built-in tools Message-ID: <20170929221727.ddba4ff1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <59CEA922.3070408@gmail.com> References: <59CEA922.3070408@gmail.com>
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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". ;-) 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. Add: sed, awk, cut, paste, maybe seq, of course sort, and maybe include tools like rot13, md5 (as they _can_ be seen as text processing tools, too). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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