List of Inferno applications

This is a list of Inferno programs. Most of these programs are very similar to the Plan 9 applications or UNIX programs with the same name.

System software

General user

• dd - convert and copy a file
• date - print the date
• echo - print arguments
• emu - Inferno emulator
• mash - programmable shell
• ns - display current namespace
• nsbuild - build Inferno namespace
• os - interface to host OS commands (hosted Inferno only)
• plumb - send message to plumber
• plumber - plumber for interapplication message routing
• rcmd - remote command execution
• runas - run command as another user
• sh - command language
• tiny/sh - reduced command line interface to the Inferno system
• wm/logon - log on to Inferno
• wm/sh, wm/mash - Window frames for the Inferno shells
• wm/wm - window manager

System Management

Processes and tasks management

• time - time command execution
• kill, broke – terminate process(es)
• sleep, pause – suspend execution for an interval
• ps – process (thread) status

User management and support

• auth/passwd - change user password
• man, wm/man, man2txt, lookman - print or find manual pages

Files and Text

Filesystem Utilities

• chgrp - change file's group or owner
• chmod - change file mode (permissions)
• cp, fcp – copy files
• du – disk usage
• lc - list files in columns
• ls – list files
• mkdir - make a directory
• mv - move files
• bind, mount, unmount – change name space
• pwd – working directory
• rm - remove file(s)
• touch - update the modification time of one or more files

Archivers and compression

• ar - archive maintainer
• gettar, lstar, puttar - tar archive utilities
• gzip, gunzip – compression and decompression utilities

Text Processing

• cat – concatenate files
• cmp - compare two files
• diff - differential file comparator
• fmt – simple text formatter
• freq - print histogram of character frequencies
• grep - pattern matching
• p - paginate
• read - read from standard input with optional seek
• tail - deliver the last part of a file
• tcs - translate character sets
• tr - translate characters
• wc - count lines, words, and characters

Editors

• acme, win - interactive text windows, and an editor environment
• wm/brutus - screen editor with support for SGML

Communication, networking and remote access

• telnet - make a remote telnet connection
• collab/connect - connect to collaborative files and services
• collab/chat, collab/poll, collab/poller, collab/whiteboard - collaborative activities
• cpu - execute a remote command
• wm/dmview, wm/dmwm - view remote displays
• netstat - summarize network connections
• sendmail - send mail messages
• listen, styxlisten, dial - network connections

Grid computing

• grid/localreg - starts a registry on the local machine
• grid/srv/monitor - graphical display for viewing resource use.
• grid/srv/ns, grid/runns - exports a selected namespace and serves it on stdin.
• grid/query - graphical interface to view resources registered with a known registry
• grid/register - registers a resource with a known registry

Security

• crypt, auth/aescbc - data encryption
• auth/secstore – retrieve files from secure store
• auth/factotum, auth/feedkey - authentication agent
• idea - encrypt/decrypt a file with the IDEA cipher
• netkey - calculate response to authentication challenge

Programming tools

Compilers and Programming tools

• asm, disdump - Assembler, Disassembler
• cprof, wm/cprof - coverage profiling of Limbo programs
• disdep - print load dependencies for Dis file
• wm/deb - graphical Limbo debugger
• limbo - Limbo compiler
• mk - maintain (make) related files
• mprof, wm/mprof - memory profiling Limbo programs
• prof, wm/prof - profiling Limbo programs
• stack - examine call stack
• yacc - yet another compiler-compiler (Limbo version)
• tclsh - a tcl implementation.

Application software

Web browsers

• charon - web browser
• webgrab - fetch web page content as files

Desktop Publishing

• cook - SGML converter
• ebook/ebook - Open Ebook browser

Graphics and multimedia

• auplay, auhdr, raw2iaf, wav2iafew - basic audio output and conversion

Various utilities and games

• cal - print calendar
• wm/calendar - print upcoming events
• fortune - sample lines from a file
• wm/about, wm/clock, wm/coffee, wm/colors, wm/date, wm/edit, wm/mand, wm/memory, wm/polyhedra, wm/reversi, wm/rt, wm/stopwatch, wm/sweeper, wm/task, wm/tetris, wm/unibrowse, wm/view, wm/winctl - miscellaneous graphical applications