INTRO(1)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to intro(1) from the General Commands Manual — it’s literally the intro page for section one of the manual. Here’s the vibe: intro — introduction to general commands (tools and utilities). 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Section one of the manual is where most of the commands that make up the FreeBSD user environment live. Like, this is the main-character section for tools and utilities. 💅

Some of the commands included with the system in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. Yes, all of that. No cap. 🔥

And there are tens of thousands of additional commands available to be installed with pkg(8), or compiled with the ports(7) collection. Some of those include web browsers, office suites, calendars, conferencing utilities, integrated development environments, media players, audio and video processing suites, etc. It’s giving “the mall of Unix software,” honestly. 🌈

All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using exit codes as defined in sysexits(3), while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1). So yeah: 0 is slay, >0 is “bestie, something went wrong.” 😭

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /bin/ — Commands fundamental to single- and multi-user modes.
• /usr/bin/ — General commands included with the base system.
• /usr/local/bin/ — Locally installed commands from pkg(8) or ports(7).

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

apropos(1), man(1), which(1), intro(2), intro(3), sysexits(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), ports(7), security(7), intro(8), pkg(8), intro(9)

Also: Tutorials in the UNIX User’s Manual Supplementary Documents. Go read those if you want the full lore. 📚✨

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🌸 HISTORY 🌸

The intro(1) manual page first appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. A true icon. 👑

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This page is from the Debian manual, dated April 12, 2024. byeee bestie, go read some section one pages 💖🫶🎀