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There are just too many commands in Solaris. Many of then are never used. Here I listed those that more or less often used. It still too many, over 200 commands in this shortened list. My God what a memory Unix admins are expected to have to deal with all this complexity and variety :-).

And what this semi-useless organization called POSIX is thinking about all this mess and proliferation of commands in Unix. 

As for viewer good old man is not the only one and not the best one. Tkman is a better tool (see Reading Manual Pages in Style).  But any command line or GUI WEB browser is miles ahead regular man reader (and conversion of man into HTML can be done with many utilities some of them can convert the whole tree at once (for those who cannot find command with option -exec can be used). It is pretty pathetic that Linux which actually came to life simultaneously with WWW did not adopt a better format (there was a stillborn FSF project to use info pages advocated by RMS that probably helped to prevent this move).  Sun used to provides HTML version of pages via special web server but it was unfortunately abandoned after a couple of security holes were found in it (why it couldn't be converted to serve only local host is beyond me). 

Please also note that man pages were not thought as static documents by Unix designers.  And on your own workstation you can (and probably should) annotate them using them as a kind of notepad.  I personally prefer to do it in HTML (IMHO troff format belongs to prev. century; HTML dominates in the XXI century ;-), but for those who prefer native format there is a nice little utility:

freshmeat.net Project details for ManEdit

The ManEdit UNIX Manual Page Editor is an editor specifically tailored for UNIX manual pages. It has a preview viewer, uses the manual page XML format for easy editing, and comes with a tutorial and reference guide. It uses the GTK+ widget set and features syntax highlighting, a complete drag and drop system for easy viewing and editing, a crash recovery system, and sample manual page templates.

Also man utility has some features that many does not suspect that they exist (like -M path option, that helps to overcome many misconfigurations).  I compiled an additional page devoted to the man command and its infrastructure.

 

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Most Often Used Commands
 

awk chmod chown cp crontab ctags cut du ed egrep eject env eval
fc fgrep file find for foreach ftp function getfacl grep head history if
ls link(1M) mailx man mkdir mv pgrep pkginfo          

A  : Full list of user commands Full list of System commands (1M)

  • apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup
  • alias - create or remove a pseudonym or shorthand for a command or series of commands
  • awk - pattern scanning and processing language

B  : Full list of user commands :  Full list of System commands

  • banner - make posters
  • basename - deliver portions of path names
  • batch - execute commands at a later time
  • bg - control process execution
  • boot(1M) – start the system kernel or a standalone program
  • bsmconv(1M) – enable or disable the Basic Security Module (BSM) on Solaris
  • bsmrecord(1M) – display Solaris audit record formats
  • bsmunconv(1M) – enable or disable the Basic Security Module (BSM) on Solaris
  • busstat(1M) – report bus-related performance statistics

C  : Full list of user commands :  Full list of System commands

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War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotesSomerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose BierceBernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOSProgramming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC developmentScripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-MonthHow to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite

Most popular humor pages:

Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor

The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D


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