Command for command list or index

[Dee_3]

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

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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

[Sanjay_6]

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

[Michael Tully]

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

[Gregory Fruth]

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

[Dee_3]

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