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31.Dd April 12, 2024
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.Fx
41user environment.
42Some of the commands included with the system 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
52Tens of thousands of additional commands are available to be installed
53with
54.Xr pkg 8 ,
55or compiled with the
56.Xr ports 7
57collection.
58Some of which include web browsers, office suites, calendars,
59conferencing utilities, integrated development environments,
60media players, audio and video processing suites, etc.
61.Pp
62All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested
63to see if the command completed normally.
64Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful
65completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error.
66Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using
67exit codes as defined in
68.Xr sysexits 3 ,
69while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0
70.Pq typically 1 .
71.Sh FILES
72.Bl -tag -width "/usr/local/bin/tab" -compact
73.It Pa /bin/
74Commands fundamental to single- and multi-user modes.
75.It Pa /usr/bin/
76General commands included with the base system.
77.It Pa /usr/local/bin/
78Locally installed commands from
79.Xr pkg 8 or
80.Xr ports 7 .
81.El
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr apropos 1 ,
84.Xr man 1 ,
85.Xr which 1 ,
86.Xr intro 2 ,
87.Xr intro 3 ,
88.Xr sysexits 3 ,
89.Xr intro 4 ,
90.Xr intro 5 ,
91.Xr intro 6 ,
92.Xr intro 7 ,
93.Xr ports 7 ,
94.Xr security 7 ,
95.Xr intro 8 ,
96.Xr pkg 8 ,
97.Xr intro 9
98.Pp
99Tutorials in the
100.%T "UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents" .
101.Sh HISTORY
102The
103.Nm Ns Pq 1
104manual page first appeared in
105.At v6 .
106