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.

• 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

• time – time command execution
• kill, broke – terminate processes
• sleep, pause – suspend execution for an interval
• ps – process (thread) status
• wm/task – graphical task manager

• auth/passwd – change user password
• man, wm/man, man2txt, lookman – print or find manual pages

• 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 files
• touch – update the modification time of one or more files

• ar – archive maintainer
• gettar, lstar, puttar – tar archive utilities
• gzip, gunzip – compression and decompression utilities

• 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

• acme, win – interactive text windows, and an editor environment
• wm/brutus – screen editor with support for SGML
• vixen – a vi clone
• wm/edit – simple graphical text editor

• 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
• wm/vncv – a VNC remote access tool [1]
• netstat – summarize network connections
• sendmail – send mail messages
• listen, styxlisten, dial – network connections

• 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

• 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

• asm, disdump – Assembler, 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)
• tclsh – a tcl implementation.
• gitfs – an implementation of the git version control system. [2]

• charon – web browser
• webgrab – fetch web page content as files

• cook – SGML converter
• ebook/ebook – Open Ebook browser

• auplay, auhdr, raw2iaf, wav2iafew – basic audio output and conversion
• wm/view – picture viewer
• bolgia – an enhanced version of "view" picture viewer

• cal – print calendar
• wm/calendar – print upcoming events
• fortune – sample lines from a file
• wm/memory – memory monitor
• wm/about, wm/clock, wm/coffee, wm/colors, wm/date, wm/man, wm/polyhedra, wm/reversi, wm/rt, wm/stopwatch, wm/sweeper, wm/tetris, wm/unibrowse, wm/vt, wm/winctl – miscellaneous graphical applications