1Intro(1)                         User Commands                        Intro(1)
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NAME

6       Intro, intro - introduction to commands and application programs
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DESCRIPTION

9       This  section describes, in alphabetical order, commands available with
10       this operating system.
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13       Pages of special interest are categorized as follows:
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15       1B    Commands found only in the SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package.
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18       1C    Commands for communicating with other systems.
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21       1F    Commands associated  with  Form  and  Menu  Language  Interpreter
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25       1S    Commands specific to SunOS.
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28   OTHER SECTIONS
29       See  the  following  sections  of  the  SunOS Reference Manual for more
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32           o      Section 1M for system maintenance commands.
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34           o      Section 4 for information on file formats.
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36           o      Section 5 for descriptions of publicly available  files  and
37                  miscellaneous information pages.
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40       For  tutorial  information  about  these  commands  and procedures, see
41       Solaris Advanced User's Guide.
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43   Manual Page Command Syntax
44       Unless otherwise noted, commands described in the SYNOPSIS section of a
45       manual page accept options and other arguments according to the follow‐
46       ing syntax and should be interpreted as explained below.
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49       name [-option...] [cmdarg...] where:
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51       [ ]            Surround an option or cmdarg that is not required.
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54       ...            Indicates multiple occurrences of the option or cmdarg.
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57       name           The name of an executable file.
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60       { }            The options and/or arguments enclosed within braces  are
61                      interdependent,  such  that  everything enclosed must be
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65       option         (Always preceded by a "−".) noargletter... or, argletter
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69       noargletter    A  single  letter  representing  an  option  without  an
70                      option-argument. Notice that more than  one  noargletter
71                      option  can  be  grouped  after  one  "−"  (Guideline 5,
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75       argletter      A single letter  representing  an  option  requiring  an
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79       optarg         An  option-argument (character string) satisfying a pre‐
80                      ceding argletter. Notice that groups of optargs  follow‐
81                      ing  an  argletter must be separated by commas, or sepa‐
82                      rated by a tab or space character and quoted  (Guideline
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86       cmdarg         Path name (or other command argument) not beginning with
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