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28.Dd October 21, 2001
29.Dt INTRO 1
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm intro
33.Nd introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35Section one of the manual contains most of the commands
36which comprise the
37.Bx
38user environment.
39Some of the commands included in section one are
40text editors, command shell interpreters,
41searching and sorting tools,
42file manipulation commands,
43system status commands,
44remote file copy commands, mail commands,
45compilers and compiler tools,
46formatted output tools,
47and line printer commands.
48.Pp
49All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested
50to see if the command completed normally.
51Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful
52completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error.
53Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using
54exit codes as defined in
55.Xr sysexits 3 ,
56while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1).
57.Sh SEE ALSO
58.Xr apropos 1 ,
59.Xr man 1 ,
60.Xr intro 2 ,
61.Xr intro 3 ,
62.Xr sysexits 3 ,
63.Xr intro 4 ,
64.Xr intro 5 ,
65.Xr intro 6 ,
66.Xr intro 7 ,
67.Xr security 7 ,
68.Xr intro 8 ,
69.Xr intro 9
70.Pp
71Tutorials in the
72.%T "UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents" .
73.Sh HISTORY
74The
75.Nm
76manual page appeared in
77.At v6 .
78