Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:48:46 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: list of built-in tools Message-ID: <20170930064846.b9544fc8be7abda477148471@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20170929221727.ddba4ff1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <59CEA922.3070408@gmail.com> <20170929221727.ddba4ff1.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:17:27 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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