More UNIX commands
Well, there is a plethora of programs available for your use on
the sparcs. I give you a listing of quite a few here, along with
how to invoke them.
Note: these are currently in no particular order, I
just add items as I think of them... Also, I've added a "&" to the
end of commands that start up X/graphical applications that don't
use the shell and are therefore more useful when run in the
background. Commands that I give without the "&" are usually ones
that aren't very happy running in the background (that is they
depend on the tty for input).
Parameters where you need to fill in
the appropriate address or filename will be specified as <filename>
or <address>. Optional parameters will be surrounded by brackets,
like if a filename is an optional argument, I will specify it like
so: [<filename>] or if there is an option verbose flag (-v) that
you might want to use, i'll specify it like so: [-v].
this convention is a fairly common one. I don't list all the command
line options for these programs, however. For full descriptions of
these programs, please consult their man pages.
- man
the man or manual system is the way in which most programs offer
documentation. man pages are available for many installed
programs, but also for many C system and function calls and for
various system configuration files.
Usage: % man <name of program
or function>
If you don't know the name of the program or function, but know
a general term you want to find help on, you can use the apropos
functionality of man:
Usage: % man -k <term>
- Netscape
A popular, graphical, web browser
Usage: % netscape [<url>]&
- lynx
A curses-based non-graphical web browser
Usage: % lynx [<url>]
- pine
A curses-based mail program for UNIX.
Usage: % pine [<email address>]
- elm
Another mail program for UNIX
Usage: % elm
- Mathematica
A powerful math program.
Usage: % mathematica &
- Acrobat Reader
A program to read Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files.
Usage: % acroread [<pdf file>]&
- Adobe Photoshop
Graphic manipulation program
Usage: % photoshop [<file>]&
- GNU zip
compression program
to compress:
Usage: % gzip
to uncompress:
Usage: % gunzip
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