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  35. .Dd October 21, 2001
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  36. .Dt INTRO 1
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  37. .Os
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  38. .Sh NAME
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  39. .Nm intro
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  40. .Nd introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)
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  41. .Sh DESCRIPTION
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  42. Section one of the manual contains most of the commands
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  43. which comprise the
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  44. .Bx
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  45. user environment.
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  46. Some of the commands included in section one are
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  47. text editors, command shell interpreters,
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  48. searching and sorting tools,
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  49. file manipulation commands,
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  50. system status commands,
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  51. remote file copy commands, mail commands,
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  52. compilers and compiler tools,
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  53. formatted output tools,
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  54. and line printer commands.
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  55. .Pp
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  56. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested
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  57. to see if the command completed normally.
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  58. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful
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  59. completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error.
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  60. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using
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  61. exit codes as defined in
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  62. .Xr sysexits 3 ,
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  63. while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1).
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  64. .Sh SEE ALSO
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  65. .Xr apropos 1 ,
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  66. .Xr man 1 ,
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  67. .Xr intro 2 ,
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  68. .Xr intro 3 ,
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  69. .Xr sysexits 3 ,
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  70. .Xr intro 4 ,
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  71. .Xr intro 5 ,
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  72. .Xr intro 6 ,
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  73. .Xr intro 7 ,
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  74. .Xr security 7 ,
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  75. .Xr intro 8 ,
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  76. .Xr intro 9
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  77. .Pp
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  78. Tutorials in the
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  79. .%T "UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents" .
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  80. .Sh HISTORY
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  81. The
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  82. .Nm
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  83. manual page appeared in
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  84. .At v6 .
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