[manual index]
Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 1 - Commands
- 0intro
- introduction to Plan 9
- intro
- 2a
- assemblers
- 0a, 1a, 2a, 5a, 6a, 8a, ka, qa, va
- 2c
- C compilers
- 0c, 1c, 2c, 5c, 6c, 8c, kc, qc, vc
- 2l
- loaders
- 0l, 1l, 2l, 5l, 6l, 8l, kl, ql, vl
- 5e
- user-mode ARM emulation
- 5e
- abaco
- browse the World-Wide Web
- abaco
- acid
- debugger
- acid, truss, trump
- acme
- interactive text windows
- acme, win
- alarm
- ask for delayed note
- alarm
- ar
- archive and library maintainer
- ar
- ascii
- interpret ASCII, Unicode characters
- ascii, unicode
- atari
- emulator
- 2600
- audio
- decode and encode audio files
- mp3dec, mp3enc, oggdec, oggenc, flacdec, sundec, wavdec, pcmconv, mixfs
- 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
- blit
- Blit emulator
- blit
- bullshit
- assemble a stream of bullshit from words in a file
- bullshit
- 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
- col
- column alignment
- col
- 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, hayes, 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
- derp
- directory-examining recursive compare
- derp
- diff
- differential file comparator
- diff
- dmid
- MIDI to OPL3 converter using GENMIDI-type instrument banks
- dmid
- doc2txt
- extract printable text from Microsoft documents
- doc2txt, doc2ps, wdoc2txt, xls2txt, olefs, mswordstrings, msexceltables
- doctype
- intuit command line for formatting a document
- doctype
- dpic
- Doom picture decoder and encoder
- dpic, todpic
- du
- disk usage
- du
- echo
- print arguments
- echo
- ecp
- fast copy, handling errors
- ecp
- 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
- fedex
- track shipments
- fedex, ups, usps
- file
- determine file type
- file
- filter
- filtering mail
- filter, list, deliver, token, vf
- fmt
- simple text formatters
- fmt, htmlfmt
- forp
- formula prover
- forp
- fortune
- sample lines from a file
- fortune, theo, troll
- fplot
- plot elementary function
- fplot
- freq
- print histogram of character frequencies
- freq
- fstype
- determine file system type
- fstype
- galaxy
- galactic n-body simulator
- galaxy, mkgalaxy
- grap
- pic preprocessor for drawing graphs
- grap
- graph
- draw a graph
- graph
- grep
- search a file for a pattern
- grep, g
- gs
- Aladdin Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter)
- gs
- gview
- interactive graph viewer
- gview
- gzip
- compress and expand data
- gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, compress, uncompress, zip, unzip
- hg
- Mercurial source code management system
- hg
- hget
- retrieve, post to a web page corresponding to a url
- hget, hpost, webpaste, urlencode
- history
- print file names from the dump
- history
- hoc
- interactive floating point language
- hoc
- hold
- simple text editor
- hold
- htmlroff
- HTML formatting and typesetting
- htmlroff
- idiff
- interactive diff
- idiff
- io
- access PC I/O registers
- io
- ircrc
- internet relay chat client
- ircrc
- join
- relational database operator
- join
- jpg
- view and convert pictures
- jpg, gif, png, tif, ppm, bmp, v210, yuv, ico, tga, tojpg, togeordi, togif, toppm, topng, totif, toico
- kbmap
- show a list of available keyboard maps and switch between them.
- kbmap
- kill
- print commands to kill processes
- kill, slay, broke, dontkill
- ktrace
- interpret kernel stack dumps
- ktrace
- leak
- help find memory leaks
- leak, kmem, umem
- lens
- interactive screen magnifier
- lens
- lex
- generator of lexical analysis programs
- lex
- lock
- run a command under lock
- lock
- look
- find lines in a sorted list
- look
- lp
- printer output
- lp
- ls
- list contents of directory
- ls, lc
- mail
- mail and mailboxes
- mail, go.fishing
- man
- print or find pages of this manual
- man, lookman, sig
- marshal
- formatting and sending mail
- marshal
- mc
- multicolumn print
- mc
- mines
- minesweeper
- mines
- mix
- MIX assembler and emulator
- mix
- mk
- maintain (make) related files
- mk, membername
- mkdir
- make a directory
- mkdir
- mlmgr
- unmoderated mailing lists
- ml, mlmgr, mlowner
- mothra
- retrieve and display World-Wide Web files
- mothra
- mpc
- extended precision arithmetic code generator
- mpc
- ms2html
- convert between troff's ms macros and html
- ms2html, html2ms
- mtime
- print file modification time
- mtime
- mug
- convert an image to a face icon
- mug
- mus
- MUS to MIDI converter
- mus
- nedmail
- reading mail
- nedmail
- netstat
- summarize network connections
- netstat
- news
- print news items
- news
- newt
- network news transport protocol (NNTP) client
- newt
- nietzsche
- print out Nietzsche quote
- nietzsche
- nintendo
- emulators
- gb, gba, nes, snes
- nm
- name list (symbol table)
- nm
- ns
- display name space
- ns
- opl3
- OPL3 chip emulator
- opl3
- p
- paginate
- p
- page
- view FAX, image, graphic, PostScript, PDF, and typesetter output files
- page
- paint
- create image files by drawing with a mouse or other pointing device
- paint
- passwd
- change or verify user password
- passwd, netkey
- patch
- simple patch creation and tracking system
- patch
- pc
- programmer's calculator
- pc
- pcc
- APE C compiler driver
- pcc
- pic
- troff preprocessor for drawing pictures
- pic
- pipefile
- attach filter to file in name space
- pipefile
- play
- simple audio player
- play
- 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, pstree
- ps2pdf
- convert between PostScript and PDF
- ps2pdf, pdf2ps
- pump
- copy asynchronously via a large circular buffer
- pump
- pwd
- working directory
- pwd, pbd
- python
- an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
- python
- qr
- generate QR code
- qr
- ratrace
- trace process system calls
- ratrace
- rc
- command language
- rc, cd, eval, exec, exit, flag, rfork, shift, wait, whatis, ., ~
- rcpu
- connection to CPU server
- rcpu, rimport, rexport, rconnect
- replica
- client-server replica management
- changes, pull, push, scan
- resample
- resample a picture
- resample, resize
- rio
- window system
- rio, label, window, wloc
- rm
- remove files
- rm
- rotate
- rotate or mirror a picture
- rotate
- rwd
- maintain remote working directory
- rwd, conswdir
- sam
- screen editor with structural regular expressions
- sam, B, sam.save, samterm
- seconds
- convert human-readable date (and time) to seconds since epoch
- seconds
- secstore
- secstore commands
- aescbc, ipso, secstore
- sed
- stream editor
- sed
- seg
- access a named segment
- seg
- sega
- emulator
- md
- 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 models of concurrent systems
- spin
- split
- split a file into pieces
- split
- spred
- sprite editor
- spred
- src
- find source code for executable
- src, Bfn
- ssam
- stream interface to sam
- ssam
- ssh
- secure shell remote login client
- ssh
- 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
- sysinfo
- report information about, update the system
- sysinfo, sysupdate
- tail
- deliver the last part of a file
- tail
- tap
- follow the pipes of a process
- tap
- tar
- archiver
- tar, dircp
- 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
- timepic
- troff preprocessor for drawing timing diagrams
- timepic
- timmy
- physics sandbox
- timmy
- tinyurl
- shrink a URL
- tinyurl
- torrent
- bittorrent client
- torrent
- touch
- set modification date of a file
- touch
- tput
- measure read throughput
- tput
- tr
- translate characters
- tr
- trace
- show (real-time) process behavior
- trace
- troff
- text formatting and typesetting
- troff, nroff, dpost
- troff2html
- convert troff output into HTML
- troff2html
- tweak
- edit image files, subfont files, face files, etc.
- tweak
- uhtml
- convert foreign character set HTML file to unicode
- uhtml
- uniq
- report repeated lines in a file
- uniq
- units
- conversion program
- units
- uptime
- show how long the system has been running
- uptime
- vac
- create, extract a vac archive on Venti
- vac, unvac
- venti
- simple Venti clients
- read, write, copy
- vi
- instruction simulators
- 5i, ki, vi, qi
- vmx
- virtual PC
- vmx
- 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
- weather
- print weather report
- weather
- who
- who is using the machine
- who, whois
- winwatch
- monitor rio windows
- winwatch
- xargs
- construct argument list and execute
- xargs
- xd
- hex, octal, decimal, or ASCII dump
- xd
- yacc
- yet another compiler-compiler
- yacc
- yesterday
- print file names from the dump
- yesterday, diffy