INTRO(1)                FreeBSD General Commands Manual               INTRO(1)

NAME

     intro - introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)

DESCRIPTION

     Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise
     the FreeBSD user environment.  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.

     Tens of thousands of additional commands are available to be installed
     with pkg(8), or compiled with the ports(7) collection.  Some of which
     include web browsers, office suites, calendars, conferencing utilities,
     integrated development environments, media players, audio and video
     processing suites, etc.

     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).

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).

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)

     Tutorials in the UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents.

HISTORY

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

FreeBSD 15.1-STABLE-HBSD        April 12, 2024                        INTRO(1)