From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 30 05:48:57 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 18914E0EFA8 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA7633AAC for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1506750535; x=1509342535; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=v8p6RwAlOksFc1Lg5IzhfyP8UjITmmmBYwRZwIAlRP4=; b=FqRLXa7HnY+oOd1UxYmf3xi6nPcjNGUoo9uVk16vrAJq7FB5xGoAYy/zwiDcHtA8tx1rfo5Kp5KLoAVFXjyhaCSmvluphndYoZIXCkv2p50Dp+G7GqB+oo/+B+kr5hH4VHIfgh2GBhbO5jjJe5+2whD589g4Kpi1cZ0cTNmWdL4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi5lMzAwMDAwMDA5NTcyZC5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r1.h.in.socketlabs.com (r1.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.11]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sat, 30 Sep 2017 01:48:48 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r1.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sat, 30 Sep 2017 01:48:49 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1dyAdq-000KPb-NG; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 05:48:46 +0000 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:48:46 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 05:48:57 -0000 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. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith