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INTRO(1)                                 BSD 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 BSD user environment.  Some
     of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and
     sorting tools, file manipulation commands system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail com-mands, commands,
     mands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands.

     All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally.
     The exit values and their meanings are explained in the individual manuals.  Traditionally, the value 0
     signifies successful completion of the command.

SEE ALSO
     man(1), intro(2), intro(4), intro(8),

     Tutorials in the UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents.

HISTORY
     A intro manual appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

BSD                                           December 30, 1993                                          BSD

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