BSD things



All things *BSD I stumbled upon that might be useful without having to remember them all. :-)


List all executables starting with a specific character (in csh);
Type the character, for instance "d", in the shell, then do Ctrl-d to get everything starting with d:

dell02% d
daemon                 db_deadlock-4.2        dcopserver             discovermacro.pl       dumpreg
date                   db_dump-4.2            dcopserver_shutdown    diskinfo               dvd+rw-booktype
db41_archive           db_dump185-4.2         dcopstart              disklabel              dvd+rw-format
db41_checkpoint        db_load-4.2            dd                     display                dvd+rw-mediainfo
db41_deadlock          db_printlog-4.2        ddbugtopbm             distcc                 dvd-ram-control
db41_dump              db_recover-4.2         default                distccd                dvdauthor
db41_dump185           db_stat-4.2            derdump                distccmon-text         dvdbackup
db41_load              db_upgrade-4.2         designer               djpeg                  dvddirdel
db41_printlog          db_verify-4.2          desktop-file-install   dmesg                  dvdunauthor
db41_recover           dbus-binding-tool      desktop-file-validate  dmidecode              dvi2fax
db41_stat              dbus-cleanup-sockets   devd                   dmp                    dvicopy
db41_upgrade           dbus-daemon            devdump                dnsextd                dvigif
db41_verify            dbus-launch            devfs                  dnssec-keygen          dvihp
db42                   dbus-monitor           devinfo                dnssec-signzone        dvilj
db4_archive            dbus-send              df                     domainname             dvilj2p
db4_checkpoint         dbus-uuidgen           dga                    dprofpp                dvilj4
db4_deadlock           dc                     dhclient               drkonqi                dvilj4l
db4_dump               dconschat              dhclient-script        dropdb                 dvilj6
db4_dump185            dcop                   dialog                 droplang               dvipdf
db4_load               dcopclient             diff                   dropuser               dvipdfm
db4_printlog           dcopfind               diff3                  dsirc                  dvipdft
db4_recover            dcopidl                dig                    dtmfdecode             dvipng
db4_stat               dcopidl2cpp            digictl                dtsdec                 dvired
db4_upgrade            dcopidlng              dirmngr                du                     dvitomp
db4_verify             dcopobject             dirmngr-client         dump                   dvitype
db_archive-4.2         dcopquit               dirname                dumpfs
db_checkpoint-4.2      dcopref                dirs                   dumpon
dell02% d

More than one character is also possible:

dell02% mo
moc              mount            mount_linprocfs  mount_nfs4       mount_procfs     mount_umapfs
modutil          mount_cd9660     mount_linsysfs   mount_ntfs       mount_reiserfs   mount_unionfs
mogrify          mount_devfs      mount_mfs        mount_nullfs     mount_smbfs      mountd
montage          mount_ext2fs     mount_msdosfs    mount_nwfs       mount_std        moused
more             mount_fdescfs    mount_nfs        mount_portalfs   mount_udf
dell02% mo