list of hpux commands

[Shivkumar]

Hi,

Does someone has exhaustive list of commands for HPUX 11i v1 and v2 ?

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Shiv

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[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

What a open question!

You will get a different set of commands from every person you ask - at the end you will get hundreds.

Scripts are interesting too.
Have a look at this:

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There is a link to the commands too.

BTW, should be posted to HP-UX forum.

Ask the moderator:
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[DCE]

Shiv,

Here is a link to the HPUX reference manuals - they contain all of the supported HPUX commands.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=c02675935

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[Torsten.]

BTW, there are a lot of well-known commands, but some new switches for commands too.
e.g.

pvchange -a
ioscan -e

For a list of all the commands see the link given by DCE.
I want to give you a starting point about a command I "discovered" some time ago: "whence".

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Shiv:

To amplify the value of the manpages installed (I hope!) on your server, create a 'whatis' database and keep it updated.

This enables keyword searches of the manpages. For instance, you could do:

# man -k vxfs

...to see the commands that reference 'vxfs' (JFS) filesystems. The '-k' switch stands for *keyword*.

To create (or update) the 'whatis' database ('/usr/share/lib/whatis') do:

# catman -m

See the manpages for 'catman(1M) and 'man(1)' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Shiv:

I should hasten to add one other note. When you use the term "command" in the context of 'manpages' you imply that you are interested in section-1 and section-1M --- user commands and system administration command, respectively, of HP-UX. 

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/search?language=en_US#q=HP-UX%20manpages&t=All&sort=relevancy&numberOfResults=25

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Thus, you might do:

# man chmod
# man 1 chmod
# man 2 chmod

You could also discern from the results of searching your 'whatis' database where you might want to look further. For instance, if a 'command' is shown to exist only in section-2, then it's a system call that can be used in a C program but not in a shell script (unless noted). *However* that doesn't mean that a great deal of good information isn't available if you read the section-2 discussion!

To keep the 'whatis' database updated, I simply run 'catman -m' following every patch installation I perform.

Regards!

...JRF...

[inventsekar_1]

Hi SHiv,

nice question shiva.
when i start learning UNIX last year, my first and favourite question is "Totally how many commands are there in UNIX box?
i started reading man pages in pdf format from http://docs.hp.com/en/hpuxman_pages.html

soon i got high tension because of so much commands.
but when i started to read step by step, i find its interesting...

for example:
give command "set" and PATH value will tell the places where u can find ALL the commands.

good idea to learn unix cmd's is thru man cmd and go to SEE ALSO part.
for example:
man cat-->
SEE ALSO
cp(1), more(1), pg(1), pr(1), rmnl(1), ssp(1).
go to man cp and

continue learning...

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[inventsekar_1]

hi shiva,
i am still thinking, thinking that how to find out the list of commands available and got good ideas.

steps:
1. the PATH variable contains where to search for the user commands.
2. get the value of PATH in a variable and listing (ls or ll or ls -R) in those directories will give us the list of commands available.
3. but this will depends upon the application installed on the system. to aviod this, most of the UNIX commands resides in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
4. ll -R /usr/sbin > list_of_cmds
5. ll -R /usr/sbin >>list_of_cmds

i think this solves ur question.
attached a file that contains the list of commands.

[inventsekar_1]

HI SHIV,

brain is working good.

the simplest way it found out.
1. the man pages in pdf format contains the list of cmd's. but its too big.
2. the contents list contains the list of commands, but we have 10 pdf's of man pages.
3. but the last pdf "HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 7 Device (Special) Files, 9 General Information, Index (vol 10)" contains an index of 200 pages. ie the list of commands with a description also.

thats what we are searching for.


The list of man pages:
http://docs.hp.com/en/hpuxman_pages.html

The HP-UX Reference, General Information, Index (vol 10): [page no: 271- 478]
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90848docs/B2355-90848docs.pdf

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[inventsekar_1]

HI SHiv,

This webpage u r going to love it.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-90010/index.html

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[Dennis Handly]

The latest 11.31 manpages are here:

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03231920/c03231920.pdf

Now here:

http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03231920

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[Ajin_1]

Login to the server

cd /usr/sbin

Check the list of commands..