topic Re: command referrent in Operating System - HP-UX

command referrent

Binh Minh — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:14:07 GMT

hi everyone!
In HP-UX, have any command to list all commands ?

Re: command referrent

Ludovic Derlyn — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:17:01 GMT

Hi,

For me , no
only man "nom de commande"

regards

L-Derlyn

Re: command referrent

Peter Godron — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:58:08 GMT

Hi,
not a command, but a document index:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-90010/index.html

Re: command referrent

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:38:38 GMT

Hi:

The manpages are a tremedous resource. To better understand them, and to be able to lookup commands, utilities, functions, and file formats, look at these two sections:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/intro.1.html

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/Introduction.9.html

You should also create the "whatis" database on your server, in my opinion. The '/usr/share/lib/whatis' file allows you to search the manpages by keyword, thus often allowing you to determine exactly what command fits your need.

To create the 'whatis' database do:

# catman -w

...or:

# catman -m

...to format the manpages and create and/or merge new information into the 'whatis' database.

Having done either of the above, you can do:

# man -k date

...for instance, to see commands related to dates and times. Be advised that the string 'date' will match some unrelated date/time commands containing the word "date" in their description, but this is a minor drawback.

For more information on 'catman', see its manpages.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: command referrent

inventsekar_1 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:11:28 GMT

same index page for HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2004
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60105/index.html

three ideas available.
first is the simple and good index page.
second catman
third..little bit difficul;t,,....list all the directories in PATH variable
/usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin will contains most of the commands...

Re: command referrent

Binh Minh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:03:05 GMT

thank you! i'm searching for this index!