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<HEAD> <TITLE>plan 9 man section 1</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <B>[<A HREF="/sys/man/index.html">manual index</A>]</B> <H2>Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 1 - Commands</H2> <HR> <DL> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/0intro">0intro</A> - introduction to Plan 9 <DD><TT> intro</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/2a">2a</A> - assemblers <DD><TT> 0a, 1a, 2a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, ka, qa, va</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/2c">2c</A> - C compilers <DD><TT> 0c, 1c, 2c, 5c, 6c, 7c, 8c, kc, qc, vc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/2l">2l</A> - loaders <DD><TT> 0l, 1l, 2l, 5l, 6l, 7l, 8l, kl, ql, vl</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/abaco">abaco</A> - browse the World-Wide Web <DD><TT> abaco, readweb</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/acid">acid</A> - debugger <DD><TT> acid, truss, trump</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/acme">acme</A> - interactive text windows <DD><TT> acme, win, awd</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ar">ar</A> - archive and library maintainer <DD><TT> ar</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ascii">ascii</A> - interpret ASCII, Unicode characters <DD><TT> ascii, unicode</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/awk">awk</A> - pattern-directed scanning and processing language <DD><TT> awk</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/basename">basename</A> - strip file name affixes <DD><TT> basename</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/bc">bc</A> - arbitrary-precision arithmetic language <DD><TT> bc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/bind">bind</A> - change name space <DD><TT> bind, mount, unmount</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/bitsyload">bitsyload</A> - bitsy-specific utilities <DD><TT> bitsyload, light, pencal, keyboard, params, prompter</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/bundle">bundle</A> - collect files for distribution <DD><TT> bundle</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cal">cal</A> - print calendar <DD><TT> cal</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/calendar">calendar</A> - print upcoming events <DD><TT> calendar</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cat">cat</A> - catenate files <DD><TT> cat, read</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cb">cb</A> - C program beautifier <DD><TT> cb</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/chgrp">chgrp</A> - change file group <DD><TT> chgrp</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/chmod">chmod</A> - change mode <DD><TT> chmod</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cleanname">cleanname</A> - clean a path name <DD><TT> cleanname</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cmp">cmp</A> - compare two files <DD><TT> cmp</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/col">col</A> - column alignment <DD><TT> col</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/colors">colors</A> - display color map <DD><TT> getmap, colors</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/comm">comm</A> - select or reject lines common to two sorted files <DD><TT> comm</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/con">con</A> - remote login, execution, and XMODEM file transfer <DD><TT> con, telnet, rx, hayes, xms, xmr</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cp">cp</A> - copy, move files <DD><TT> cp, fcp, mv</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cpp">cpp</A> - C language preprocessor <DD><TT> cpp</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/cpu">cpu</A> - connection to CPU server <DD><TT> cpu</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/crop">crop</A> - frame, crop, and convert image <DD><TT> crop, iconv</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/date">date</A> - date and time <DD><TT> date, clock</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/db">db</A> - debugger <DD><TT> db</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/dc">dc</A> - desk calculator <DD><TT> dc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/dd">dd</A> - convert and copy a file <DD><TT> dd</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/delkey">delkey</A> - delete keys from factotum <DD><TT> delkey</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/deroff">deroff</A> - remove formatting requests <DD><TT> deroff, delatex</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/diff">diff</A> - differential file comparator <DD><TT> diff</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/doc2txt">doc2txt</A> - extract printable text from Microsoft documents <DD><TT> doc2txt, doc2ps, wdoc2txt, xls2txt, olefs, mswordstrings, msexceltables</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/doctype">doctype</A> - intuit command line for formatting a document <DD><TT> doctype</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/du">du</A> - disk usage <DD><TT> du</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/echo">echo</A> - print arguments <DD><TT> echo</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ecp">ecp</A> - fast copy, handling errors <DD><TT> ecp</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ed">ed</A> - text editor <DD><TT> ed</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/emacs">emacs</A> - editor macros <DD><TT> emacs</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/eqn">eqn</A> - typeset mathematics <DD><TT> eqn</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/expect">expect</A> - dialer scripting tools <DD><TT> at, drain, expect, pass</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/faces">faces</A> - mailbox interface <DD><TT> faces, seemail, vwhois</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/factor">factor</A> - factor a number, generate large primes <DD><TT> factor, primes</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/fedex">fedex</A> - track shipments <DD><TT> fedex, ups, usps</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/file">file</A> - determine file type <DD><TT> file</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/filter">filter</A> - filtering mail <DD><TT> filter, list, deliver, token, vf</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/fmt">fmt</A> - simple text formatters <DD><TT> fmt, htmlfmt</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/fortune">fortune</A> - sample lines from a file <DD><TT> fortune</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/freq">freq</A> - print histogram of character frequencies <DD><TT> freq</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/grap">grap</A> - pic preprocessor for drawing graphs <DD><TT> grap</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/graph">graph</A> - draw a graph <DD><TT> graph</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/grep">grep</A> - search a file for a pattern <DD><TT> grep</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/gs">gs</A> - Aladdin Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter) <DD><TT> gs</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/gview">gview</A> - interactive graph viewer <DD><TT> gview</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/gzip">gzip</A> - compress and expand data <DD><TT> gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, compress, uncompress, zip, unzip</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/hget">hget</A> - retrieve a web page corresponding to a url <DD><TT> hget</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/history">history</A> - print file names from the dump <DD><TT> history</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/hoc">hoc</A> - interactive floating point language <DD><TT> hoc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/htmlroff">htmlroff</A> - HTML formatting and typesetting <DD><TT> htmlroff</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/idiff">idiff</A> - interactive diff <DD><TT> idiff</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/join">join</A> - relational database operator <DD><TT> join</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/jpg">jpg</A> - view and convert pictures <DD><TT> jpg, gif, png, ppm, bmp, v210, yuv, ico, togif, toppm, topng, toico</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/kbmap">kbmap</A> - show a list of available keyboard maps and switch between them. <DD><TT> kbmap</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/kill">kill</A> - print commands to kill processes <DD><TT> kill, slay, broke</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ktrace">ktrace</A> - interpret kernel stack dumps <DD><TT> ktrace</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/leak">leak</A> - help find memory leaks <DD><TT> leak, kmem, umem</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/lens">lens</A> - interactive screen magnifier <DD><TT> lens</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/lex">lex</A> - generator of lexical analysis programs <DD><TT> lex</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/lock">lock</A> - run a command under lock <DD><TT> lock</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/look">look</A> - find lines in a sorted list <DD><TT> look</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/lp">lp</A> - printer output <DD><TT> lp</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ls">ls</A> - list contents of directory <DD><TT> ls, lc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mail">mail</A> - mail and mailboxes <DD><TT> mail, go.fishing</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/man">man</A> - print or find pages of this manual <DD><TT> man, lookman, sig</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/marshal">marshal</A> - formatting and sending mail <DD><TT> marshal</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mc">mc</A> - multicolumn print <DD><TT> mc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mk">mk</A> - maintain (make) related files <DD><TT> mk, membername</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mkdir">mkdir</A> - make a directory <DD><TT> mkdir</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mlmgr">mlmgr</A> - unmoderated mailing lists <DD><TT> ml, mlmgr, mlowner</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mp3dec">mp3dec</A> - decode audio MPEG files (layers 1, 2 and 3) <DD><TT> mp3dec</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mp3enc">mp3enc</A> - create mp3 audio files <DD><TT> mp3enc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ms2html">ms2html</A> - convert between troff's ms macros and html <DD><TT> ms2html, html2ms</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mtime">mtime</A> - print file modification time <DD><TT> mtime</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/mug">mug</A> - convert an image to a face icon <DD><TT> mug</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/nedmail">nedmail</A> - reading mail <DD><TT> nedmail</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/netstat">netstat</A> - summarize network connections <DD><TT> netstat</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/news">news</A> - print news items <DD><TT> news</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/nm">nm</A> - name list (symbol table) <DD><TT> nm</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ns">ns</A> - display name space <DD><TT> ns</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/p">p</A> - paginate <DD><TT> p</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/page">page</A> - view FAX, image, graphic, PostScript, PDF, and typesetter output files <DD><TT> page</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/passwd">passwd</A> - change or verify user password <DD><TT> passwd, netkey</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/patch">patch</A> - simple patch creation and tracking system <DD><TT> patch</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/pcc">pcc</A> - APE C compiler driver <DD><TT> pcc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/pic">pic</A> - troff and tex preprocessors for drawing pictures <DD><TT> pic, tpic</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/pipefile">pipefile</A> - attach filter to file in name space <DD><TT> pipefile</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/plot">plot</A> - graphics filter <DD><TT> plot</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/plumb">plumb</A> - send message to plumber <DD><TT> plumb</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/pr">pr</A> - print file <DD><TT> pr</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/prof">prof</A> - display profiling data <DD><TT> prof, tprof, kprof</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/proof">proof</A> - troff output interpreter <DD><TT> proof</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ps">ps</A> - process status <DD><TT> ps, psu</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ps2pdf">ps2pdf</A> - convert between PostScript and PDF <DD><TT> ps2pdf, pdf2ps</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/pump">pump</A> - copy asynchronously via a large circular buffer <DD><TT> pump</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/pwd">pwd</A> - working directory <DD><TT> pwd, pbd</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/rc">rc</A> - command language <DD><TT> rc, cd, eval, exec, exit, flag, rfork, shift, wait, whatis, ., ~</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/replica">replica</A> - client-server replica management <DD><TT> changes, pull, push, scan</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/resample">resample</A> - resample a picture <DD><TT> resample</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/rio">rio</A> - window system <DD><TT> rio, label, window, wloc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/rm">rm</A> - remove files <DD><TT> rm</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/rwd">rwd</A> - maintain remote working directory <DD><TT> rwd, conswdir</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/sam">sam</A> - screen editor with structural regular expressions <DD><TT> sam, B, sam.save, samterm</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/secstore">secstore</A> - secstore commands <DD><TT> aescbc, ipso, secstore</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/sed">sed</A> - stream editor <DD><TT> sed</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/seq">seq</A> - print sequences of numbers <DD><TT> seq</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/size">size</A> - print size of executable files <DD><TT> size</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/sleep">sleep</A> - suspend execution for an interval <DD><TT> sleep</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/sort">sort</A> - sort and/or merge files <DD><TT> sort</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/spell">spell</A> - find spelling errors <DD><TT> spell, sprog</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/spin">spin</A> - verification tool for models of concurrent systems <DD><TT> spin</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/split">split</A> - split a file into pieces <DD><TT> split</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/src">src</A> - find source code for executable <DD><TT> src</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/ssh">ssh</A> - secure login and file copy from/to Unix or Plan 9 <DD><TT> ssh, sshnet, scp, sshserve</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/stop">stop</A> - print commands to stop and start processes <DD><TT> stop, start</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/strings">strings</A> - extract printable strings <DD><TT> strings</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/strip">strip</A> - remove symbols from binary files <DD><TT> strip</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/sum">sum</A> - sum and count blocks in a file <DD><TT> sum, md5sum, sha1sum</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/syscall">syscall</A> - test a system call <DD><TT> syscall</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tail">tail</A> - deliver the last part of a file <DD><TT> tail</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tar">tar</A> - archiver <DD><TT> tar, dircp</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tbl">tbl</A> - format tables for nroff or troff <DD><TT> tbl</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tcs">tcs</A> - translate character sets <DD><TT> tcs</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tee">tee</A> - pipe fitting <DD><TT> tee</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tel">tel</A> - look in phone book <DD><TT> tel, iwhois</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/test">test</A> - set status according to condition <DD><TT> test</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/thesaurus">thesaurus</A> - search online thesaurus <DD><TT> thesaurus</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/time">time</A> - time a command <DD><TT> time</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/touch">touch</A> - set modification date of a file <DD><TT> touch</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tr">tr</A> - translate characters <DD><TT> tr</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/trace">trace</A> - show (real-time) process behavior <DD><TT> trace</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/troff">troff</A> - text formatting and typesetting <DD><TT> troff, nroff, dpost</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/troff2html">troff2html</A> - convert troff output into HTML <DD><TT> troff2html</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/tweak">tweak</A> - edit image files, subfont files, face files, etc. <DD><TT> tweak</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/uniq">uniq</A> - report repeated lines in a file <DD><TT> uniq</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/units">units</A> - conversion program <DD><TT> units</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/uptime">uptime</A> - show how long the system has been running <DD><TT> uptime</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/vac">vac</A> - create, extract a vac archive on Venti <DD><TT> vac, unvac</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/venti">venti</A> - simple Venti clients <DD><TT> read, write, copy</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/vi">vi</A> - instruction simulators <DD><TT> 5i, ki, vi, qi</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/vnc">vnc</A> - remote frame buffer server and viewer for Virtual Network Computing (VNC) <DD><TT> vncs, vncv</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/vt">vt</A> - emulate a VT-100 or VT-220 terminal <DD><TT> vt</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/wc">wc</A> - word count <DD><TT> wc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/weather">weather</A> - print weather report <DD><TT> weather</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/who">who</A> - who is using the machine <DD><TT> who, whois</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/winwatch">winwatch</A> - monitor rio windows <DD><TT> winwatch</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/xd">xd</A> - hex, octal, decimal, or ASCII dump <DD><TT> xd</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/yacc">yacc</A> - yet another compiler-compiler <DD><TT> yacc</TT> </DT> <DT><A HREF="/magic/man2html/1/yesterday">yesterday</A> - print file names from the dump <DD><TT> yesterday, diffy</TT> </DT> </DL>