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Introduction

This chapter contains a detailed reference to Inferno utilities and commands. They are grouped into the following sections:

Command Line Utilities

Environmental Utilities

Limbo Modules

Inferno Devices

Inferno File Protocol, Styx

Format Specifications

Daemons

Command Line Utilities

The Limbo command line utilities are as follows:
bind

mount,

unmount

change name space

cat

concatenate files

cd

change working directory

chmod

change file mode (permissions)

cmp

compare files

cp

copy file

cs

start connection server daemon

date

print the date

diff

differential file comparator

du

disk usage

echo

print arguments

grep

search file(s) for a pattern

kill

terminate process(es)

ls

list contents of directory

mathcalc

interface to a TclLib calculator module

mkdir

make a directory

mv

rename/move files

netstat

rename/move files

nsbuild

build Inferno name space

os

interface OS commands (non-native Inferno only)

p

paginate

ps

process status

pwd

print working directory

rm

remove file(s)

sh

command line interface to the Inferno system

sleep

suspend execution for an interval

time

time command execution

unicode

Interpret Unicode characters

wcwish

word (and other things) counter

wish

interface to the Tk graphics toolkit



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