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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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