Plan 9 Manual in Printable Form

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[manual index]

Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 1 - Commands

0intro - introduction to Plan 9

intro

2a - assemblers

0a, 1a, 2a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a, ka, qa, va

2c - C compilers

0c, 1c, 2c, 5c, 6c, 7c, 8c, 9c, kc, qc, vc

2l - loaders

0l, 1l, 2l, 5l, 6l, 7l, 8l, 9l, kl, ql, vl

abaco - browse the World-Wide Web

abaco, readweb

acid - debugger

acid, truss, trump

acme - interactive text windows

acme, win, awd

ar - archive and library maintainer

ascii - interpret ASCII, Unicode characters

ascii, unicode

awk - pattern-directed scanning and processing language

awk

basename - strip file name affixes

basename

bc - arbitrary-precision arithmetic language

bind - change name space

bind, mount, unmount

bitsyload - bitsy-specific utilities

bitsyload, light, pencal, keyboard, params, prompter

bsplit - split binary data into fixed-size chunks

bsplit

bundle - collect files for distribution

bundle

cal - print calendar

cal

calendar - print upcoming events

calendar

calls - print static call graph of a C program

calls

cat - catenate files

cat, read

cb - C program beautifier

chgrp - change file group

chgrp

chmod - change mode

chmod

cleanname - clean a path name

cleanname

cmp - compare two files

cmp

col - column alignment

col

colors - display color map

getmap, colors

comm - select or reject lines common to two sorted files

comm

con - remote login, execution, and XMODEM file transfer

con, telnet, rx, hayes, xms, xmr

cp - copy, move files

cp, fcp, mv

cpp - C language preprocessor

cpp

cpu - connection to CPU server

cpu

crop - frame, crop, and convert image

crop, iconv

date - date and time

date, clock

db - debugger

dc - desk calculator

dd - convert and copy a file

delkey - delete keys from factotum

delkey

deroff - remove formatting requests

deroff, delatex

diff - differential file comparator

diff

doc2txt - extract printable text from Microsoft documents

doc2txt, doc2ps, wdoc2txt, xls2txt, olefs, mswordstrings, msexceltables

doctype - intuit command line for formatting a document

doctype

du - disk usage

echo - print arguments

echo

ecp - fast copy, handling errors

ecp

ed - text editor

emacs - editor macros

emacs

eqn - typeset mathematics

eqn

expect - dialer scripting tools

at, drain, expect, pass

faces - mailbox interface

faces, seemail, vwhois

factor - factor a number, generate large primes

factor, primes

fedex - track shipments

fedex, ups, usps

file - determine file type

file

filter - filtering mail

filter, list, deliver, token, vf

fmt - simple text formatters

fmt, htmlfmt

fortune - sample lines from a file

fortune

freq - print histogram of character frequencies

freq

grap - pic preprocessor for drawing graphs

grap

graph - draw a graph

graph

grep - search a file for a pattern

grep

gs - Aladdin Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter)

gview - interactive graph viewer

gview

gzip - compress and expand data

gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, compress, uncompress, zip, unzip

hget - retrieve a web page corresponding to a url

hget

history - print file names from the dump

history

hoc - interactive floating point language

hoc

htmlroff - HTML formatting and typesetting

htmlroff

idiff - interactive diff

idiff

join - relational database operator

join

jpg - view and convert pictures

jpg, gif, png, ppm, bmp, v210, yuv, ico, togif, toppm, topng, toico

kbmap - show a list of available keyboard maps and switch between them.

kbmap

kill - print commands to kill processes

kill, slay, broke

ktrace - interpret kernel stack dumps

ktrace

leak - help find memory leaks

leak, kmem, umem

lens - interactive screen magnifier

lens

lex - generator of lexical analysis programs

lex

lock - run a command under lock

lock

look - find lines in a sorted list

look

lp - printer output

ls - list contents of directory

ls, lc

mail - mail and mailboxes

mail, go.fishing

man - print or find pages of this manual

man, lookman, sig

marshal - formatting and sending mail

marshal

mc - multicolumn print

mk - maintain (make) related files

mk, membername

mkdir - make a directory

mkdir

mlmgr - unmoderated mailing lists

ml, mlmgr, mlowner

mp3dec - decode audio MPEG files (layers 1, 2 and 3)

mp3dec

mp3enc - create mp3 audio files

mp3enc

ms2html - convert between troff's ms macros and html

ms2html, html2ms

mtime - print file modification time

mtime

mug - convert an image to a face icon

mug

nedmail - reading mail

nedmail

netstat - summarize network connections

netstat

news - print news items

news

nm - name list (symbol table)

ns - display name space

p - paginate

page - view FAX, image, graphic, PostScript, PDF, and typesetter output files

page

passwd - change or verify user password

passwd, netkey

patch - simple patch creation and tracking system

patch

pcc - APE C compiler driver

pcc

pic - troff and tex preprocessors for drawing pictures

pic, tpic

pipefile - attach filter to file in name space

pipefile

plot - graphics filter

plot

plumb - send message to plumber

plumb

pr - print file

prof - display profiling data

prof, tprof, kprof

proof - troff output interpreter

proof

ps - process status

ps, psu

ps2pdf - convert between PostScript and PDF

ps2pdf, pdf2ps

pump - copy asynchronously via a large circular buffer

pump

pwd - working directory

pwd, pbd

ratrace - trace process system calls

ratrace

rc - command language

rc, cd, eval, exec, exit, flag, rfork, shift, wait, whatis, ., ~

replica - client-server replica management

changes, pull, push, scan

resample - resample a picture

resample

rio - window system

rio, label, window, wloc

rm - remove files

rwd - maintain remote working directory

rwd, conswdir

sam - screen editor with structural regular expressions

sam, B, sam.save, samterm

seconds - convert human-readable date (and time) to seconds since epoch

seconds

secstore - secstore commands

aescbc, ipso, secstore

sed - stream editor

sed

seq - print sequences of numbers

seq

size - print size of executable files

size

sleep - suspend execution for an interval

sleep

soelim - preprocess so inclusion commands in troff input

soelim

sort - sort and/or merge files

sort

spell - find spelling errors

spell, sprog

spin - verification tool for models of concurrent systems

spin

split - split a file into pieces

split

src - find source code for executable

src

ssh1 - encrypted login and file copy with foreign systems via SSHv1

ssh1, sshnet, scp, sshserve

ssh2 - encrypted login and copy with foreign systems via SSHv2

ssh, sshsession, rsa2ssh2

stop - print commands to stop and start processes

stop, start

strings - extract printable strings

strings

strip - remove symbols from binary files

strip

sum - sum and count blocks in a file

sum, md5sum, sha1sum

syscall - test a system call

syscall

tail - deliver the last part of a file

tail

tar - archiver

tar, dircp

tarsplit - split a tar archive into archives under some size, or combine archives

tarsplit, tarcat

tbl - format tables for nroff or troff

tbl

tcs - translate character sets

tcs

tee - pipe fitting

tee

tel - look in phone book

tel, iwhois

test - set status according to condition

test

thesaurus - search online thesaurus

thesaurus

time - time a command

time

tinyurl - shrink a URL

tinyurl

touch - set modification date of a file

touch

tr - translate characters

trace - show (real-time) process behavior

trace

troff - text formatting and typesetting

troff, nroff, dpost

troff2html - convert troff output into HTML

troff2html

tweak - edit image files, subfont files, face files, etc.

tweak

uniq - report repeated lines in a file

uniq

units - conversion program

units

uptime - show how long the system has been running

uptime

vac - create, extract a vac archive on Venti

vac, unvac

venti - simple Venti clients

read, write, copy

vi - instruction simulators

5i, ki, vi, qi

vnc - remote frame buffer server and viewer for Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

vncs, vncv

vt - emulate a VT-100 or VT-220 terminal

wc - word count

weather - print weather report

weather

who - who is using the machine

who, whois

winwatch - monitor rio windows

winwatch

xd - hex, octal, decimal, or ASCII dump

yacc - yet another compiler-compiler

yacc

yesterday - print file names from the dump

yesterday, diffy

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Section 2 - System and Library Calls

0intro - introduction to library functions

intro

9p - 9P file service

Srv, dirread9p, emalloc9p, erealloc9p, estrdup9p, listensrv, postfd, postmountsrv, readbuf, readstr, respond, responderror, threadlistensrv, threadpostmountsrv, srv

9pcmdbuf - control message parsing

Cmdbuf, parsecmd, respondcmderror, lookupcmd

9pfid - 9P fid, request tracking

Fid, Fidpool, allocfidpool, freefidpool, allocfid, closefid, lookupfid, removefid, Req, Reqpool, allocreqpool, freereqpool, allocreq, closereq, lookupreq, removereq

9pfile - in-memory file hierarchy

Tree, alloctree, freetree, File, createfile, closefile, removefile, walkfile, opendirfile, readdirfile, closedirfile, hasperm

abort - generate a fault

abort

abs - integer absolute values

abs, labs

access - determine accessibility of file

access

addpt - arithmetic on points and rectangles

addpt, subpt, mulpt, divpt, rectaddpt, rectsubpt, insetrect, canonrect, eqpt, eqrect, ptinrect, rectinrect, rectXrect, rectclip, combinerect, Dx, Dy, Pt, Rect, Rpt

aes - advanced encryption standard (rijndael)

setupAESstate, aesCBCencrypt, aesCBCdecrypt, aesCTRencrypt, aesCTRdecrypt, setupAESXCBCstate, aesXCBCmac

allocimage - allocating, freeing, reading, writing images

allocimage, allocimagemix, freeimage, nameimage, namedimage, setalpha, loadimage, cloadimage, unloadimage, readimage, writeimage, bytesperline, wordsperline

arg - process option letters from argv

ARGBEGIN, ARGEND, ARGC, ARGF, EARGF

arith3 - operations on 3-d points and planes

add3, sub3, neg3, div3, mul3, eqpt3, closept3, dot3, cross3, len3, dist3, unit3, midpt3, lerp3, reflect3, nearseg3, pldist3, vdiv3, vrem3, pn2f3, ppp2f3, fff2p3, pdiv4, add4, sub4

assert - check program invariants

assert

atof - convert text to numbers

atof, atoi, atol, atoll, charstod, strtod, strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull

auth - routines for authenticating users

amount, newns, addns, login, noworld, auth_proxy, fauth_proxy, auth_allocrpc, auth_freerpc, auth_rpc, auth_getkey, amount_getkey, auth_freeAI, auth_chuid, auth_challenge, auth_response, auth_freechal, auth_respond, auth_userpasswd, auth_getuserpasswd, auth_getinfo

authsrv - routines for communicating with authentication servers

authdial, passtokey, nvcsum, readnvram, convT2M, convM2T, convTR2M, convM2TR, convA2M, convM2A, convPR2M, convM2PR, _asgetticket, _asrdresp

avl - AVL tree routines

mkavltree, insertavl, lookupavl, deleteavl, avlwalk, avlnext, avlprev, endwalk

bin - grouped memory allocation

binalloc, bingrow, binfree

bind - change name space

bind, mount, unmount

bio - buffered input/output

Bopen, Binit, Binits, Brdline, Brdstr, Bgetc, Bgetrune, Bgetd, Bungetc, Bungetrune, Bread, Bseek, Boffset, Bfildes, Blinelen, Bputc, Bputrune, Bprint, Bvprint, Bwrite, Bflush, Bterm, Bbuffered

blowfish - blowfish encryption

setupBFstate, bfCBCencrypt, bfCBCdecrypt, bfECBencrypt, bfECBdecrypt

brk - change memory allocation

brk, sbrk

cachechars - font utilities

cachechars, agefont, loadchar, Subfont, Fontchar, Font

chdir - change working directory

chdir

cleanname - clean a path name

cleanname

color - colors and color maps

cmap2rgb, cmap2rgba, rgb2cmap

complete - file name completion

complete

control - interactive graphical controls

Control, Controlset, activate, closecontrol, closecontrolset, controlcalled, controlwire, createbox, createboxbox, createbutton, createcolumn, createentry, createkeyboard, createlabel, createmenu, createradiobutton, createrow, createscribble, createslider, createstack, createtab, createtext, createtextbutton, ctlerror, ctlmalloc, ctlrealloc, ctlstrdup, ctlprint, deactivate, freectlfont, freectlimage, initcontrols, namectlfont, namectlimage, newcontrolset, resizecontrolset

cputime - cpu time in this process and children

cputime, times, cycles

ctime - convert date and time

ctime, localtime, gmtime, asctime, tm2sec, timezone

ctype - ASCII character classification

isalpha, isupper, islower, isdigit, isxdigit, isalnum, isspace, ispunct, isprint, isgraph, iscntrl, isascii, toascii, _toupper, _tolower, toupper, tolower

debugger - machine-independent debugger functions

cisctrace, risctrace, ciscframe, riscframe, localaddr, symoff, fpformat, beieee80ftos, beieeesftos, beieeedftos, leieee80ftos, leieeesftos, leieeedftos, ieeesftos, ieeedftos

des - single and triple digital encryption standard

setupDESstate, des_key_setup, block_cipher, desCBCencrypt, desCBCdecrypt, desECBencrypt, desECBdecrypt, des3CBCencrypt, des3CBCdecrypt, des3ECBencrypt, des3ECBdecrypt, key_setup, des56to64, des64to56, setupDES3state, triple_block_cipher

dial - make and break network connections

dial, hangup, announce, listen, accept, reject, netmkaddr, setnetmtpt, getnetconninfo, freenetconninfo

dirread - read directory

dirread, dirreadall

disk - generic disk device interface

opendisk, Disk

draw - graphics functions PB L

Image, draw, gendraw, drawreplxy, drawrepl, replclipr, line, poly, fillpoly, bezier, bezspline, fillbezier, fillbezspline, ellipse, fillellipse, arc, fillarc, icossin, icossin2, border, string, stringn, runestring, runestringn, stringbg, stringnbg, runestringbg, runestringnbg, _string, ARROW, drawsetdebug

dsa - digital signature algorithm

dsagen, dsasign, dsaverify, dsapuballoc, dsapubfree, dsaprivalloc, dsaprivfree, dsasigalloc, dsasigfree, dsaprivtopub

dup - duplicate an open file descriptor

dup

elgamal - elgamal encryption

eggen, egencrypt, egdecrypt, egsign, egverify, egpuballoc, egpubfree, egprivalloc, egprivfree, egsigalloc, egsigfree, egprivtopub

encode - encoding byte arrays as strings

dec64, enc64, dec32, enc32, dec16, enc16, encodefmt

encrypt - DES encryption

encrypt, decrypt, netcrypt

errstr - description of last system call error

errstr, rerrstr, werrstr

event - graphics events

event, einit, estart, estartfn, etimer, eread, emouse, ekbd, ecanread, ecanmouse, ecankbd, ereadmouse, eatomouse, eresized, egetrect, edrawgetrect, emenuhit, emoveto, esetcursor, Event, Mouse, Menu

exec - execute a file

exec, execl, _privates, _nprivates, _tos

exits - terminate process, process cleanup

exits, _exits, atexit, atexitdont, terminate

exp - exponential, logarithm, power, square root

exp, log, log10, pow, pow10, sqrt

fauth - set up authentication on a file descriptor to a file server

fauth

fcall - interface to Plan 9 File protocol

Fcall, convS2M, convD2M, convM2S, convM2D, fcallfmt, dirfmt, dirmodefmt, read9pmsg, statcheck, sizeS2M, sizeD2M

fd2path - return file name associated with file descriptor

fd2path

fgetc - Stdio input and output