topic Command for command list or index in Operating System - HP-UX

Command for command list or index

Dee_3 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:30:56 GMT

Is there a command for HP-UX that will give me a list or index of the commmands available? man is pretty useless to me unless I already know the command because I do not know how to list the commands available...thx

Re: Command for command list or index

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:36:30 GMT

There is no command that lists all the command alphabetically. Doing an ls /usr/bin gives the user commands.Most of the Administrator specific commands are in /usr/sbin and /usr/lbin.

-Sri

Re: Command for command list or index

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:44:34 GMT

Hi Terri:

Two things leap to my mind:

1) You can do keyword searches by doing:

# 'man -k keyword'

...if you have the 'whatis' database setup:

# catman -m

2) You can consult the online web man pages:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/man_pages.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Command for command list or index

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:46:29 GMT

He Terri:

Welcome to Unix. I don't have a great answer but this is about as close as it gets:
cd /usr/share/man
ls man1.Z man1m.Z | sort > /var/tmp/mylist

This will create a list sorted lost of the commands in the file /var/tmp/mylist.

Regards, Clay

Re: Command for command list or index

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:50:10 GMT

Hi Terri,

There is no command that will list all the command on HP-UX. you have to see the list the hard way. use "ll" for the directories
/use/bin --> Normal command available to all users
/sbin --> System Commands
/usr/sbin --> Command normally used by root user
/usr/local/bin --> Command created by oracle install program ( may not be available on your system)
/etc --> Most of these commands are linked to /usr/sbin

Then, there are some command which are created by specific program, which sometimes are in /opt/$program/bin.

Hope this helps.

thanks

Re: Command for command list or index

Michael Tully — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:21:33 GMT

Hi,

As suggested by Clay you could sort, but there
will commands missing, like application
specific ones on your server. To find out where
the 'man' pages are use from your shell,
# echo $MANPATH
This will tell where all the 'man' pages are.

Good Luck
-Michael

Re: Command for command list or index

Gregory Fruth — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:45:14 GMT

Aside from the "man -k" or "apropos"
commands, if you use the tcsh shell
you can use command completion to help
you out.

Type "set autolist". Then, hitting ESC-ESC
or TAB will complete the current command;
e.g., if you type "a" then ESC-ESC or TAB, it'll
print a list of all commands that begin with "a".

HTH

Re: Command for command list or index

Dee_3 — Mon, 08 Oct 2001 11:22:10 GMT

Thanks to all - I will give the various suggestions a try