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