alphabetical
MANUAL PAGES:
On all UNIX computers you can use the
man command to view the manual pages
for most executables/commands. For example,
newton> man matlab
newton> man cc
For other commands, you can type the option "-help"
or "--help" to get succinct instructions, e.g.,
newton> moon -help
newton> psnup --help
If you don't know a Unix command
but you know what you want it to do,
you can fish for the name of the command
using man -k with a keyword,
e.g.,
newton> man -k plotting
newton> man -k fortran
newton> man -k 'text editor'
see some selected man pages
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by category
Math, numerics, statistics, dynamical systems
- math -- Mathematica
(mathbg)
- mathematica -- Mathematica
- maple, xmaple -- Maple (Sun workstations only)
- matlab -- Matlab
(matlabbg)
- idl -- Interactive Data Language
- idlhelp -- Interactive Data Language
- sas -- SAS (statistics)
- dstool -- Dynamic Systems tool
- xpp -- another dynamic systems tool
- gnuplot -- graphing/plotting
- NAG -- numerics library
- SLATEC -- numerics library
- fftw -- numerics library
- bc -- simple arbitrary precision arithmetic
software to help with documentation
- latex -- Mathematical documentation
- tex -- Mathematical documentation
- soffice -- replaces Word/Excel
- reLyX -- LaTeX utility
- lyx -- LaTeX utility
- webster -- dictionary
text editors
- emacs, xemacs -- text editor
- nedit -- text editor
- pico -- text editor
- vi -- text editor
- vim -- text editor
Compilers, utilities
- cc -- C compiler
(Linux Dells: icc)
- gcc -- C compiler
- c++ -- C++ compiler
(Linux Dells: icc)
- g++ -- C++ compiler
- f77 -- Fortran compiler
(Linux Dells: ifc)
- f90 -- Fortran compiler
(Linux Dells: ifc)
- g77 -- Fortran compiler
- mex -- Matlab compiler
- perl -- Perl
- javac -- Java compiler
- javadoc -- Java API generator
- java -- Java interpreter
- make -- compiling / maintenance
- gnumake -- GNU make
Email
- pine -- email program
- mail -- email program
- mailall -- email to list of addressees
Compression/decompression, encoding/decoding
- gzip -- LZ77 compression
- gunzip -- LZ77 decompression
- munpack -- MIME decoding
- mpack -- MIME encoding
- funzip -- ZIP archive extraction/filter
- zip -- ZIP compression
- unzip -- ZIP decompression
- unbinhex -- decode Macintosh HQX file
- uudecode -- email UU decoder
- uuencode -- old encoder for email
Graphics editing & display
- acroread -- display PDF files
- ghostview -- display PostScript
- xv -- view / edit images
- xfig -- technical drawing
-- the best!
- xpaint -- graphics/drawing program
- mpeg_play -- animate MPEG
- lcnames -- change filenames to lower case
- gifmerge -- create animated GIF
- gs -- display PostScript
- animate -- display mpegs, animated GIFs
- combine -- graphics
(ImageMagick)
- display -- graphics
(ImageMagick)
- identify -- graphics
(ImageMagick)
- GL -- graphics library
Graphics format conversions
- dvipdf -- convert DVI to PDF
- gif2png -- convert GIF to PNG
- ps2pdf -- convert PostScript to PDF
- convert -- graphics
(ImageMagick)
- mogrify -- graphics
(ImageMagick)
- montage -- graphics
(ImageMagick)
- netpbm -- graphics conversion utilities
- giftrans -- make transparent GIFs
Internet
- netscape -- web browser
- net -- netscape
- lynx -- web browser (text only)
- ssh -- replaces telnet and rlogin
- ssh1 -- replaces telnet and rlogin
- ssh2 -- replaces telnet and rlogin
- scp -- replaces FTP and Fetch
- scp2 -- replaces FTP and Fetch
- sftp -- replaces FTP and Fetch
- sftp2 -- replaces FTP and Fetch
- pgp -- super security encoding
Web Page editing
- gifsize -- web graphics utility
- jpgsize -- web graphics utility
- pngsize -- web graphics utility
- latex2html -- convert LaTeX to HTML
Printing
- 2up -- printing utility
- 2upframe -- printing utility
- EE -- printing utility
- bp -- printing utility
- psnup -- printing utility
- enscript -- print text
- lp -- print PostScript
Miscellaneous Utilities
- rlab -- Newton Lab utility
- cal3 -- 3-month calendar
- moon -- phase of moon
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