Unix Version 7 Commands
See Unix Seventh
Edition Manual for original troff source for ppt commands and
more. Thanks to the Bell Labs crew for making this stuff available.
Dennis also has
the Unix
First Edition documentation online for even deeper paleontological
expeditions.
Note that the Perl Power Tools
project does not intend to re-implement all of these, just the
shell-programming utility set. Things like adb and
icheck will not be attempted. :-)
Section 1 - Commands
- ac - login accounting
- adb - debugger
- ar - archive and library maintainer
- arcv - convert archives to new format
- as - assembler
- at - execute commands at a later time
- awk - pattern scanning and processing language
- bas - basic
- basename - strip filename affixes
- bc - arbitrary-precision arithmetic language
- cal - print calendar
- calendar - reminder service
- cat - catenate and print
- cb - C program beautifier
- cd - change working directory
- chmod - change mode
- clri - clear i-node
- cmp - compare two files
- col - filter reverse line feeds
- comm - select or reject lines common to two sorted files
- cp - copy
- crypt - encode/decode
- cu - call UNIX
- date - print and set the date
- dc - desk calculator
- dcheck - file system directory consistency check
- dd - convert and copy a file
- deroff - remove nroff, troff, tbl and eqn constructs
- df - disk free
- diff - differential file comparator
- diff3 - 3-way differential file comparison
- du - summarize disk usage
- dump - incremental file system dump
- dumpdir - print the names of files on a dump tape
- echo - echo arguments
- ed - text editor
- expr - evaluate arguments as an expression
- f77 - Fortran 77 compiler
- file - determine file type
- find - find files
- graph - draw a graph
- icheck - file system storage consistency check
- intro - introduction to commands
- iostat - report I/O statistics
- join - relational database operator
- kill - terminate a process with extreme prejudice
- ld - loader
- lex - generator of lexical analysis programs
- lint - a C program verifier
- ln - make a link
- login - sign on
- look - find lines in a sorted list
- lookall - look through all text files on UNIX
- lorder - find ordering relation for an object library
- ls - list contents of directory
- m4 - macro processor
- mail - send or receive mail among users
- make - maintain program groups
- man - print sections of this manual
- mesg - permit or deny messages
- mkconf - generate configuration tables
- mkdir - make a directory
- mkfs - construct a file system
- mknod - build special file
- mv - move or rename files and directories
- ncheck - generate names from i-numbers
- newgrp - log in to a new group
- nm - print name list
- od - octal dump
- passwd - change login password
- plot - graphics filters
- pr - print file
- prep - prepare text for statistical processing
- prof - display profile data
- ps - process status
- pstat - print system facts
- ptx - permuted index
- pubindex - make inverted bibliographic index
- pwd - working directory name
- quot - summarize file system ownership
- ranlib - convert archives to random libraries
- ratfor - rational Fortran dialect
- restor - incremental file system restore
- rev - reverse lines of a file
- roff - format text
- sed - stream editor
- size - size of an object file
- sleep - suspend execution for an interval
- sort - sort or merge files
- spline - interpolate smooth curve
- split - split a file into pieces
- strip - remove symbols and relocation bits
- struct - structure Fortran programs
- stty - set terminal options
- su - substitute user id temporarily
- sum - sum and count blocks in a file
- sync - update the super block
- tabs - set terminal tabs
- tail - deliver the last part of a file
- tar - tape archiver
- tbl - format tables for nroff or troff
- tc - photypesetter simulator
- tee - pipe fitting
- test - condition command
- time - time a command
- tk - paginator for the Tektronix 4014
- touch - update date last modified of a file
- tp - manipulate tape archive
- tr - translate characters
- tsort - topological sort
- tty - get terminal name
- uniq - report repeated lines in a file
- units - conversion program
- uux - unix to unix command execution
- wait - await completion of process
- wall - write to all users
- wc - word count
- who - who is on the system
- write - write to another user
- yacc - yet another compiler-compiler
Section 6 - Games