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31.Dd October 21, 2001
32.Dt INTRO 1
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm intro
36.Nd introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38Section one of the manual contains most of the commands
39which comprise the
40.Bx
41user environment.
42Some of the commands included in section one are
43text editors, command shell interpreters,
44searching and sorting tools,
45file manipulation commands,
46system status commands,
47remote file copy commands, mail commands,
48compilers and compiler tools,
49formatted output tools,
50and line printer commands.
51.Pp
52All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested
53to see if the command completed normally.
54Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful
55completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error.
56Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using
57exit codes as defined in
58.Xr sysexits 3 ,
59while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1).
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr apropos 1 ,
62.Xr man 1 ,
63.Xr intro 2 ,
64.Xr intro 3 ,
65.Xr sysexits 3 ,
66.Xr intro 4 ,
67.Xr intro 5 ,
68.Xr intro 6 ,
69.Xr intro 7 ,
70.Xr security 7 ,
71.Xr intro 8 ,
72.Xr intro 9
73.Pp
74Tutorials in the
75.%T "UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents" .
76.Sh HISTORY
77The
78.Nm
79manual page appeared in
80.At v6 .
81