Be Shell Tools

Release 1.1d7 added a great many GNU tools in /bin, and DR8 keeps them running. UNIX-style "man" pages for these tools are included here in HTML format: Man Pages for bash and GNU Tools in /bin The Be Command-Line Editor, ve You can also click one of the following links to download a single-file archive of the documentation for bash and the Be shell tools or ve: HTML Man Pages for bash and the GNU Tools in a Macintosh Archive HTML Man Pages for bash and the GNU Tools in a UNIX Archive HTML Man Page for ve in a Macintosh Archive HTML Man Page for ve in a UNIX Archive

Man Pages for bash and GNU Tools in /bin awk-- the GNU awk text processing/filtering tool bash-- the GNU bash (Bourne-Again) shell basename-- print only the trailing filename component of a path bc-- an arbitrary precision calculator using standard notation bison-- a YACC compatible parser generator cat-- print a file to stdout chmod-- change the permissions of a file ci-- the RCS source control system check-in utility cksum-- print the POSIX.2 check sum for a file co-- the RCS source control system check-out utility comm-- print common lines in two files compress-- standard Unix style compress (use "compress -d" to decompress) cp-- copy a set of files/directories csplit-- split a file into sections determined by context lines cut-- print only specified columns from the input dc-- an arbitrary precision calculator using RPN notation dd-- data dumper, copies and converts data diff-- compare two text files and print the differences diff3-- compare an original file and two descendants for differences dirname-- print only the directory component of a path du-- disk usage reporting utility echo-- echo the command line arguments egrep-- search for enhanced regular expression patterns in text files env-- print out all environment variables expand-- expand tabs into spaces expr-- print the result of the math expression on the command line false-- exit with a bad return code fgrep-- search for fixed patterns in text files flex-- a lex compatible lexical analyzer generator fmt-- format input text fold-- wrap long lines past a specified line length grep-- search for regular expression patterns in text files groups-- print the group-ids you are a part of gunzip-- uncompress a ".Z" or ".gz" file gzip-- compress a file (produces a ".gz" file) head-- print the first N lines of a file id-- print the current user-id and group-id ident-- identify RCS keyword strings in files install-- copy a file and install it with proper permissions join-- join lines of two files on a common field less-- paginate output so that it is printed one screenful at a time lesskey-- configuration program to specify key bindings for less logname-- print the login name of the current user ls-- list the contents of a directory mtools-- an introduction to the MS-DOS filesystem utilities mattrib-- MS-DOS "attrib" command (works with the floppy drive) mcd-- MS-DOS "cd" command (works with the floppy drive) mcopy-- MS-DOS "copy" command (works with the floppy drive) md5sum-- print a very robust check-sum mdel-- MS-DOS "del" command (works with the floppy drive) mdir-- MS-DOS "dir" command (works with the floppy drive) merge-- merge three files (original and two descendants) into one file mformat-- MS-DOS "format" command (works with the floppy drive) mkdir-- make a new directory mkmanifest-- create a shell script to restore Unix filenames mlabel-- MS-DOS "label" command (works with the floppy drive) mmd-- MS-DOS "md" command (works with the floppy drive) mrd-- MS-DOS "rd" command (works with the floppy drive) mread-- low-level copy from an MS-DOS filesystem mren-- MS-DOS "ren" command (works with the floppy drive) mtype-- MS-DOS "type" command (works with the floppy drive) mv-- move a file/directory to a new location mwrite-- low-level copy to an MS-DOS filesystem nl-- number the lines in the input od-- print an octal dump paste-- merge lines of files pathchk-- check whether file names are valid or portable pr-- convert text files for printing printenv-- print out all environment variables printf-- print a formatted string pwd-- print the current working directory rcsintro-- an introduction to the RCS source control utilities rcs-- change RCS file attributes rcsclean-- clean up working RCS files rcsdiff-- diff a file with a version in the RCS history rcsmerge-- merge RCS revisions rlog-- print the check-in log for a file rm-- remove a file/directory rmdir-- remove a directory if it is empty sdiff-- find differences between two files and merge interactively shar-- build a shell archive file sleep-- sleep for the specified number of seconds sort-- sort the input split-- split a file into multiple pieces stty-- set terminal characteristics/features sum-- print a unix compatible check-sum for a file tac-- print the input reversed, from last line to first tail-- print the last few lines of a file tee-- a pipeline tee, output both to stdout and a file test-- test the validity of an expression (file existence, etc) touch-- update the modification time of a file tr-- trans-literate input characters true-- always return a successful return value tty-- print the name of the tty device representing stdin/stdout uname-- print information about the underlying system unexpand-- convert spaces to tabs uniq-- print the unique lines of the file unshar-- extract a shell archive file uudecode-- decode a uuencoded file uuencode-- encode a file into the uuencode format wc-- print the number of words, lines and bytes in a file yes-- print "y" on the output forever zcat-- print a compress (".Z" or ".gz") file to standard output

The Be Command-Line Editor, ve The following documentation is available for ve, the current Be command-line editor (which you use in the Terminal application): global.doc: Informatin about ve's global substitution command, in ASCII format reference A reference to ve, in ASCII format. tutorial.ascii: A ve tutorial, in ASCII format. tutorial.nr: The tutorial in nroff format, for use with the UNIX man tool. tutorial.ps: The tutorial in PostScript format, for printing on a PostScript printer. tutorial.txt: The tutorial in a format best viewed on a command line. You can download these files from the Be ftp site (ftp.be.com/pub/docs/DR8/ShellTools) or with your browser: HTML Man Page for ve in a Macintosh Archive HTML Man Page for ve in a UNIX Archive