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 - Dis assembler, Dis 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)

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, wav2iaf - 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