isalpha, isupper, islower, isdigit, isxdigit, isalnum, isspace, ispunct, isprint, isgraph, iscntrl, isascii - classify characters
cc (0) - C compiler
elle (0) - ELLE Looks Like Emacs
mined (0) - MINIX editor
pretty (0) - MINIX pretty printer
unshar (0) - Remove files from a shell archive
make (0) - a program for maintaining large programs
adduser (0) - add a new user to the system
fmt (0) - adjust line-length for paragraphs of text
yes (0) - an endless stream of the same word
ar, aal (0) - archivers
as (0) - assembler
backup (0) - backup files
btoa (0) - binary to ascii conversion
ctags (0) - build a tags file
passwd, chfn, chsh (0) - change a login password, full name or shell
chmod (0) - change access mode for files
chgrp (0) - change group
chmem (0) - change memory allocation
chown (0) - change owner
diskcheck (0) - check a disk for bad sectors
pathchk (0) - check pathname
clr (0) - clear the screen
cron (0) - clock daemon
elvis, vi, ex (0) - clone of the Berkeley vi editor
cmp (0) - compare two files
compress, uncompress, zcat (0) - compress a file using modified Lempel-Ziv coding
srccrc (0) - compute CRC checksums of the entire source tree
sum (0) - compute the checksum and block count of a file
cat (0) - concatenate files and write them to stdout
cdiff (0) - context diff
M, U (0) - conveniently mount and unmount
unexpand (0) - convert spaces to tabs
expand (0) - convert tabs to spaces
wc (0) - count characters, words, and lines in a file
mkproto (0) - create a MINIX prototype file
ln, clone (0) - create a link to a file
mknod (0) - create a special file
uud, uudecode (0) - decode a binary file encoded with uue
uniq (0) - delete consecutive identical lines in a file
dis88 (0) - disassembler [IBM]
dd (0) - disk dumper
de (0) - disk editor
cksum (0) - display file checksum and size
last (0) - display recent on-line session records
tee (0) - divert stdin to a file
ed (0) - editor
uue, uuencode (0) - encode a binary file to ASCII (e.g., for mailing)
expr (0) - evaluate experession
which (0) - examine $PATH to see which file will be executed
whereis (0) - examine system directories for a given file
at, atrun (0) - execute commands at a later time
true, false (0) - exit with the value true or false
factor (0) - factor an integer less than 2**31
cp, cpdir (0) - file copy
find (0) - find files meeting a given condition
fgrep (0) - fixed grep
sync (0) - flush the cache to disk
fold (0) - fold long lines
width (0) - force all the lines of a file to a given width
gather (0) - gather up the files in a directory for transmission
cgrep (0) - grep and display context
ncheck (0) - i-node to name converter
dhrystone (0) - integer benchmark
ic (0) - integer calculator
dosdir (0) - list an MS-DOS directory [IBM]
ls (0) - list the contents of a directory
loadfont (0) - load a font into the video card
loadkeys (0) - load a keyboard map into the keyboard driver
login (0) - log into the computer
ref (0) - look up a reference in a tags file
look (0) - look up words in dictionary
m4 (0) - macro processor
mkdir (0) - make a directory
mkfs (0) - make a file system
file (0) - make a guess as to a file's type based on contents
mkfifo (0) - make a named pipe
mref (0) - make listing and cross reference map of MINIX
mount (0) - mount a file system
mv (0) - move or rename a file
od (0) - octal dump
fdisk (0) - partition a hard disk [IBM]
paste (0) - paste multiple files together
patch (0) - patches up a file from the original and a diff
awk (0) - pattern matching language
fsck, fsck1 (0) - perform file system consistency check
update (0) - periodically write the buffer cache to disk
prep (0) - prepare a text file for statistical analysis
banner (0) - print a banner
cal (0) - print a calendar
pr (0) - print a file
fortune (0) - print a fortune
whatsnew (0) - print a newly modified file, marking changes
strings (0) - print all the strings in a binary file
spell (0) - print all words in a file not present in the dictionary
whoami (0) - print current user name
diff (0) - print differences between two files
traverse (0) - print directory tree under the named directory
du (0) - print disk usage
inodes (0) - print i-node information
comm (0) - print lines common to two sorted files
who (0) - print list of currently logged in users
anm (0) - print name list
nm (0) - print name list
date (0) - print or set the date and time
printenv (0) - print out the current environment
size (0) - print text, data, and bss size of a program
echo (0) - print the arguments
crc (0) - print the checksum of the file data
termcap (0) - print the current termcap entry
tty (0) - print the device name of this tty
head (0) - print the first few lines of a file
tail (0) - print the last few lines of a file
printroot (0) - print the name of the root device on standard output
id (0) - print the uid and gid
pwd (0) - print working directory
ps (0) - process status
badblocks (0) - put a list of bad blocks in a file
readfs (0) - read a MINIX file system
readall (0) - read a device quickly to check for bad blocks
dosread (0) - read a file from an MS-DOS diskette [IBM]
readclock (0) - read the real time clock [IBM PC/AT and AMIGA]
rz (0) - receive a file using the zmodem protocol
recover (0) - recover files that have been removed.
elvrec (0) - recover from a crash
treecmp (0) - recursively list differences in two directory trees
indent (0) - reformat the layout of a program
calendar (0) - reminder service
ifdef (0) - remove #ifdefs from a file
rmdir (0) - remove a directory
rm (0) - remove a file
strip (0) - remove symbol table from executable file
astrip (0) - remove symbols
time (0) - report how long a command takes
df (0) - report on free disk space and i-nodes
asize (0) - report the size of an object file
rev (0) - reverse the characters on each line of a file
grep (0) - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
cut (0) - select out columns of a file
sz (0) - send a file using the zmodem protocol
write (0) - send a message to a logged-in user
kill (0) - send a signal to a process
mail (0) - send and receive electronic mail
stty (0) - set terminal parameters
sh, ., break, case, cd, continue, eval, exec, exit, export, for, if, read, readonly, set, shift, trap, umask, wait, while (0) - shell
shar (0) - shell archiver
svc (0) - shell version control system
sort (0) - sort a file of ASCII lines
split (0) - split a large file into several smaller files
sed (0) - stream editor
ascii (0) - strip all the pure ASCII lines from a file
basename (0) - strip off file prefixes and suffixes
sleep (0) - suspend execution for a given number of seconds
modem (0) - switch the modem and getty state
uname, arch (0) - system info
tar (0) - tape archiver
su (0) - temporarily log in as superuser or another user
test, [ (0) - test for a condition
roff (0) - text formatter
ttt (0) - tic tac toe
tsort (0) - topological sort [IBM]
kermit (0) - transfer a file using the kermit protocol
tr (0) - translate character codes
term (0) - turn PC into a dumb terminal [IBM]
animals (0) - twenty-questions type guessing game about animals
umount (0) - unmount a mounted file system
touch (0) - update a file's time of last modification
leave (0) - warn when it is time to go home
doswrite (0) - write a file onto an MS-DOS diskette [IBM]
bc (1) - An arbitrary precision calculator language
cawf, nroff (1) - C version of the nroff-like, Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter
bsfilt, colcrt (1) - a colcrt-like backspace filter
acd (1) - a compiler driver
ash, command, getopts, hash, jobs, local, return, setvar, unset (1) - a shell
yacc (1) - an LALR(1) parser generator
makewhatis (1) - build the whatis(5) database
lp, lpd (1) - copy a file to the line printer
man (1) - display online manual pages
eject (1) - eject removable media
flex, lex (1) - fast lexical analyzer generator
flexdoc (1) - fast lexical analyzer generator
format (1) - format a PC floppy diskette
tget (1) - get termcap values
whatis, apropos (1) - give single line descriptions for manual pages
install (1) - install files
isodir (1) - list ISO9660 or High Sierra directories
isoinfo (1) - list an ISO9660 or High Sierra volume descriptor
host (1) - look up host names using domain server
mt (1) - magnetic tape control
mixer (1) - manipulate mixer settings on a sound card
playwave (1) - play an audio file in MicroSoft PCM wave format
cdplay (1) - play audio compact disks
isoread (1) - read a file in ISO9660 or High Sierra format
recwave (1) - record an audio file in MicroSoft PCM wave format
remsync (1) - remotely synchronize file trees
hostaddr (1) - show ethernet address, IP address or hostname
vol (1) - split input on or combine output from several volumes
synctree (1) - synchronize directory trees.
yap, more (1) - yet another pager
utime (2) - change a file's last modified time
brk, sbrk (2) - change data segment space allocation
chmod (2) - change mode of file
setgid (2) - change my group id
chown (2) - change owner and group of a file
chroot (2) - change root directory
chdir (2) - change working directory
close (2) - close a file descriptor
reboot (2) - close down the system or reboot
ioctl (2) - control device
creat (2) - create a new file or rewrite an existing one
fork (2) - create a new process
pipe (2) - create an interprocess channel
setsid, getpgrp (2) - create process group, get process group id
unlink (2) - delete a link to a file
access (2) - determine accessibility of a file
isatty (2) - does this descriptor refer to a terminal
dup (2) - duplicate an open file descriptor
exec, execl, execv, execle, execve, execlp, execvp (2) - execute a file
stat, fstat (2) - get file status
times (2) - get process and child process times
getpid (2) - get process id
time (2) - get time
getuid (2) - get uid
intro (2) - introduction to system calls and error numbers
link (2) - link to a file
mknod (2) - make a directory, or a special or ordinary file
dup2 (2) - make another descriptor
sigaction, signal (2) - manage signal state and handlers
sigprocmask (2) - manipulate the signal mask
fcntl (2) - miscellaneous file descriptor control functions
lseek (2) - move read/write file pointer
open (2) - open for reading or writing
fstat (2) - read an inode
read (2) - read from file
sigpending (2) - report pending signals
kill (2) - send a signal to a process or a group of processes
alarm (2) - set a process alarm clock
umask (2) - set the default file protection mask
stime (2) - set time
setuid, setgid (2) - set user and group IDs
signal (2) - specify what to do upon receipt of a signal
pause (2) - suspend process until signal
sigsuspend (2) - suspend until signalled
exit, _exit (2) - terminate process
sync (2) - update super-block
wait (2) - wait for a child to terminate
getegid (2) - what is my effective group id
geteuid (2) - what is my effective user id
getppid (2) - what is my parent's process id
getgid (2) - what is my real group id
write (2) - write to a file
oneC_sum (3) - One's complement internet checksum
setbuf, setvbuf (3) - assign buffering to a stream
fread, fwrite (3) - binary input/output
putenv (3) - change or add value to environment
termios, tcgetattr, tcsetattr, cfgetispeed, cfgetospeed, cfsetispeed, cfsetospeed, tcsendbreak, tcdrain, tcflush, tcflow (3) - change terminal attributes
rename (3) - change the name of a file
fclose, fflush (3) - close or flush a stream
editline (3) - command-line editing library with history
regcmp, regex (3) - compile and execute regular expression
ctime, localtime, gmtime, asctime (3) - convert date and time to string
scanf, fscanf, sscanf (3) - convert formatted input
toascii (3) - convert to ASCII
tolower (3) - convert to lower case
toupper (3) - convert to upper case
directory, opendir, readdir, rewinddir, closedir, telldir, seekdir (3) - directory routines
ttyname (3) - file descriptor to terminal device name
ctermid (3) - generate file name for terminal
gets, fgets (3) - get a string from a stream
cuserid (3) - get character login name of the user
getc, getchar, fgetc, getw (3) - get character or word from a stream
getdents (3) - get directory entries
getpw (3) - get name from UID
g_h_b_n, gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr, gethostent, sethostent, endhostent, herror (3) - get network host entry
getopt (3) - get option letter from argument vector
getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid, setgrent, endgrent, setgrfile (3) - group file routines
hton, htons, htonl, ntohs, ntohl (3) - host to network byte order conversion
popen, pclose (3) - initiate pipe to/from a process
getttyent, getttynam, setttyent, endttyent (3) - interface to /etc/ttytab
intro (3) - introduction to subroutines and libraries
lrand (3) - lehmer random number generator
malloc, free, realloc, calloc (3) - main memory allocator
mktemp (3) - make a unique file name
sigset, sigaddset, sigdelset, sigemptyset, sigfillset, sigismember (3) - manipulate signal sets
setjmp, longjmp (3) - non-local goto
crypt (3) - one-way password encryption function
fopen, freopen, fdopen (3) - open a stream
getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, setpwent, endpwent, setpwfile (3) - password file routines
printf, fprintf, sprintf (3) - print formatted output
puts, fputs (3) - put a string on a stream
putc, putchar, fputc, putw (3) - put character or word on a stream
qsort (3) - quicker sort
getpass (3) - read a password
lockf (3) - record locking on files
fseek, rewind, ftell (3) - reposition a file pointer in a stream
resolver, res_query, res_search, res_mkquery, res_send, res_init, dn_comp, dn_expand (3) - resolver routines
abs (3) - return integer absolute value
logname (3) - return login name of user
getenv (3) - return value for environment name
curses (3) - screen/window management library
stdio (3) - standard buffered input/output package
rand (3) - standard random number generator
ferror, feof, clearerr, fileno (3) - stream status inquiries
lge, lgt, lle, llt (3) - string comparison intrinsic functions
sleep (3) - suspend execution for interval
perror, errno, sys_errlist, sys_nerr (3) - system error messages
ttyslot, fttyslot (3) - utmp slot number
ip, eth, psip, udp, tcp (4) - Internet Protocol server devices and definitions
sd, st, sg (4) - SCSI hard disk / tape / generic
dev (4) - device files in /dev
fd (4) - floppy disk
lp (4) - line printer
mtio (4) - magnetic tape commands
console, keyboard, log (4) - system console
tty, termios (4) - terminals
hd (4) - winchester hard disk
resolv.conf (5) - Domain Name System resolver configuration
TZ (5) - Time zone environment variable
whatis (5) - database of online manual pages
dir (5) - directory layout
ethers (5) - ethernet address to hostname database
hosts (5) - hostname to IP address database
keymap (5) - keyboard maps
fstab, mtab (5) - list of file systems to mount, mounted file system table.
utmp, wtmp (5) - logged in users, login and logout history
resolver (5) - resolver configuration file
ttytab (5) - table of login terminals
rhosts, hosts.equiv (5) - trusted remote users or hosts
passwd, group, shadow (5) - user and group databases, shadow passwords
hier (7) - file system hierarchy
man (7) - nroff macro package for manual pages
ascii (7) - the ASCII character set.
inet (8) - TCP/IP server
halt (8) - abruptly stop the system
checkhier (8) - check the directory hierarchy
add_route (8) - configure IP routing.
ifconfig (8) - configure a TCP/IP device
boot (8) - from power on to the login prompt
shutdown (8) - graciously close the system down
init (8) - grandparent of all processes
usage (8) - installing and using Minix
irdpd (8) - internet router discovery protocol daemon
repartition (8) - load a partition table
monitor, edparams (8) - load and start Minix, modify boot parameters
mkdist (8) - make a Minix distribution
installboot (8) - make a device bootable
partition (8) - make a partition table
MAKEDEV, DESCRIBE (8) - make/describe device files
nonamed (8) - not a name daemon, but acts like one
part (8) - partition table editor
pwdauth (8) - password authentication program
reboot (8) - reboot the system immediately
rarpd (8) - reverse address resolution protocol daemon
s_n_d, set_net_default (8) - select the default TCP/IP network
pr_routes (8) - show IP routing.
getty (8) - system login banner
screendump (8) - write current console screen to standard output
