Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:18:03 -0600 From: markham breitbach <markham@ssimicro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: list of built-in tools Message-ID: <d8a94ad4-5433-5601-ff70-9d5771a8fdac@ssimicro.com> In-Reply-To: <20170930064846.b9544fc8be7abda477148471@sohara.org> References: <59CEA922.3070408@gmail.com> <20170929221727.ddba4ff1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170930064846.b9544fc8be7abda477148471@sohara.org>
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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 <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. >
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