Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 1 - Commands

0intro - introduction to Plan 9

intro

2a - assemblers

1a, 2a, 5a, 7a, 8a, ka, qa, va

2c - C compilers

1c, 2c, 5c, 7c, 8c, kc, qc, vc

2l - loaders

1l, 2l, 5l, 7l, 8l, kl, ql, vl

acid - debugger

acid, truss, trump

acme - interactive text windows

acme, win, awd

ar - archive and library maintainer

ar

ascii - interpret ASCII, Unicode characters

ascii, unicode

awk - pattern-directed scanning and processing language

awk

basename - strip file name affixes

basename

bc - arbitrary-precision arithmetic language

bc

bind - change name space

bind, mount, unmount

bitsyload - bitsy-specific utilities

bitsyload, light, pencal, keyboard, params, prompter

bundle - collect files for distribution

bundle

cal - print calendar

cal

calendar - print upcoming events

calendar

cat - catenate files

cat, read

cb - C program beautifier

cb

chgrp - change file group

chgrp

chmod - change mode

chmod

cleanname - clean a path name

cleanname

cmp - compare two files

cmp

colors - display color map

getmap, colors

comm - select or reject lines common to two sorted files

comm

con - remote login, execution, and XMODEM file transfer

con, telnet, rx, xms, xmr

cp - copy, move files

cp, fcp, mv

cpp - C language preprocessor

cpp

cpu - connection to CPU server

cpu

crop - frame, crop, and convert image

crop, iconv

date - date and time

date, clock

db - debugger

db

dc - desk calculator

dc

dd - convert and copy a file

dd

delkey - delete keys from factotum

delkey

deroff - remove formatting requests

deroff, delatex

diff - differential file comparator

diff

doc2txt - extract printable strings from Microsoft Office documents

doc2txt, xls2txt olefs, mswordstrings msexceltable

doctype - intuit command line for formatting a document

doctype

du - disk usage

du

echo - print arguments

echo

ed - text editor

ed

emacs - editor macros

emacs

eqn - typeset mathematics

eqn

expect - dialer scripting tools

at, drain, expect, pass

faces - mailbox interface

faces, seemail, vwhois

factor - factor a number, generate large primes

factor, primes

file - determine file type

file

filter - filtering mail

filter, list, deliver, token, vf

fmt - simple text formatters

fmt, htmlfmt

fortune - sample lines from a file

fortune

freq - print histogram of character frequencies

freq

grap - pic preprocessor for drawing graphs

grap

graph - draw a graph

graph

grep - search a file for a pattern

grep

gs - Aladdin Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter)

gs

gview - interactive graph viewer

gview

gzip - compress and expand data

gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, zip, unzip,

hget - retrieve a web page corresponding to a url

hget

history - print file names from the dump

history

hoc - interactive floating point language

hoc

htmlroff - HTML formatting and typesetting

htmlroff

idiff - interactive diff

idiff

join - relational database operator

join

jpg - view and convert pictures

jpg, gif, png, ppm, bmp, yuv, ico, togif, toppm, topng, toico

kbmap - show a list of available keyboard maps and switch between them.

kbmap

kill - print commands to kill processes

kill, slay, broke

ktrace - interpret kernel stack dumps

ktrace

leak - examine family of processes for memory leaks

leak

lens - interactive screen magnifier

lens

lex - generator of lexical analysis programs

lex

look - find lines in a sorted list

look

lp - printer output

lp

ls - list contents of directory

ls, lc

mail - mail and mailboxes

mail

man - print or find pages of this manual

man, lookman, sig

marshal - formatting and sending mail

marshal

mc - multicolumn print

mc

mk - maintain (make) related files

mk, membername

mkdir - make a directory

mkdir

mlmgr - unmoderated mailing lists

ml, mlmgr, mlowner

ms2html - convert between troff's ms macros and html

ms2html, html2ms

nedmail - reading mail

nedmail

netstat - summarize network connections

netstat

news - print news items

news

nm - name list (symbol table)

nm

ns - display name space

ns

p - paginate

p

page - view FAX, image, graphic, PostScript, PDF, and typesetter output files

page

passwd - change user password

passwd, netkey, iam

patch - simple patch creation and tracking system

patch

pcc - APE C compiler driver

pcc

pic - troff and tex preprocessors for drawing pictures

pic, tpic

pipefile - attach filter to file in name space

pipefile

plot - graphics filter

plot

plumb - send message to plumber

plumb

pr - print file

pr

prof - display profiling data

prof, tprof, kprof

proof - troff output interpreter

proof

ps - process status

ps, psu

ps2pdf - convert between PostScript and PDF

ps2pdf, pdf2ps

pwd - working directory

pwd, pbd

rc - command language

rc, cd, eval, exec, exit, flag, rfork, shift, wait, whatis, ., ~

replica - client-server replica management

changes, pull, push, scan

resample - resample a picture

resample

rio - window system

rio, label, window, wloc

rm - remove files

rm

rwd - maintain remote working directory

rwd, conswdir

sam - screen editor with structural regular expressions

sam, B, sam.save, samterm

secstore - secstore commands

aescbc, ipso, secstore

sed - stream editor

sed

seq - print sequences of numbers

seq

size - print size of executable files

size

sleep - suspend execution for an interval

sleep

sort - sort and/or merge files

sort

spell - find spelling errors

spell, sprog

spin - verification tool for concurrent systems

spin

split - split a file into pieces

split

src - find source code for executable

src

ssh - secure login and file copy from/to Unix or Plan 9

ssh, sshnet, scp, sshserve

stop - print commands to stop and start processes

stop, start

strings - extract printable strings

strings

strip - remove symbols from binary files

strip

sum - sum and count blocks in a file

sum, md5sum, sha1sum

syscall - test a system call

syscall

tail - deliver the last part of a file

tail

tar - archiver

tar

tbl - format tables for nroff or troff

tbl

tcs - translate character sets

tcs

tee - pipe fitting

tee

tel - look in phone book

tel, iwhois

test - set status according to condition

test

thesaurus - search online thesaurus

thesaurus

time - time a command

time

touch - set modification date of a file

touch

tr - translate characters

tr

trace - show (real-time) process behavior

trace

troff - text formatting and typesetting

troff, nroff

troff2html - convert troff output into HTML

troff2html

tweak - edit image files, subfont files, face files, etc.

tweak

uniq - report repeated lines in a file

uniq

units - conversion program

units

uptime - show how long the system has been running

uptime

vac - create a vac archive on Venti

vac

vi - instruction simulators

5i, ki, vi, qi

vnc - remote frame buffer server and viewer for Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

vncs, vncv

vt - emulate a VT-100 or VT-220 terminal

vt

wc - word count

wc

who - who is using the machine

who, whois

winwatch - monitor rio windows

winwatch

xd - hex, octal, decimal, or ASCII dump

xd

yacc - yet another compiler-compiler

yacc

yesterday - print file names from the dump

yesterday, diffy