cmdlist

NAME

SYNOPSIS

cmdlist [ -l ] [ selection ]

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

A user of the WA2L/edrc package is advised to use the usage(1) command to get a list of all commands with a short usage.

The cmdlist command is intended to be used by a WA2L/edrc developer needing a quick information about implementation details.

Beside cmdlist, see also the binprobe command to check which binaries (TYPE: BIN, JBIN, LSCR, PSCR, YSCR) are able to run on the operating system where currently logged in.

The output of cmdlist consists of a table having the following columns:

COMMAND

command executable name.

TYPE

indicator of command realization (the same TYPE indicator is used in the compatibility(1) manual page):

BIN

machine binary file. A compiled source code.

JBIN

Java binary files. A compiled *.java source code.

SCR

Bourne shell script.

KSCR

Korn (or Bourne-Again) shell script.

LSCR

Lua script or program.

PSCR

Perl script.

YSCR

Python script.

LINK

symbolic link to an other command providing an alternate name for an executable file.

DIRECTORY

directory in which the command is located (see also: edrc(1m)):

bin (=edrc/bin/)

executables planned to be used mostly from the command line.

This directory is in $PATH when using edrc, shell or eshell.

lib (=edrc/lib/)

executables planned to be used mostly from within scripts because this commands often have the character of supporting functions and need often more initialization.

This directory is in $PATH when using edrc, shell or eshell.

sbin (=edrc/sbin/)

executables planned to be used from the command line.

This directory is not in $PATH when using edrc, shell or eshell.

pbin (=edrc/pbin/)

executables to be used mostly from the command line as normal (unprivileged) user but with elevated permissions. Depending on the system, commands in this directory use automatically sudo or pfexec to elevate the permissions without the need to manually call sudo command or pfexec command.

This directory is not in $PATH when using edrc, shell or eshell, but should be added to the $PATH of the normal (unprivileged) user.

STARTMODE

mode how the command is started. In general it can be distinguished between tree categories. However the user does not note a difference (and does not need to know the STARTMODE) when using the commands of any of the categories (sometimes such a behaviour is called "transparent"):

direct

direct start of a command where TYPE is SCR.

command

a command is started thru an alternate name (TYPE is LINK) provoking a different behaviour.

This method of calling the same command thru different names is a common concept on UNIX like systems to save implementation effort.

.name_wrapper

start thru a wrapper (see related name_wrapper(1) manual page), where before the real start additional checks are executed and specific settings are automatically applied:

.os_wrapper

start of operating system dependent binaries.

.java_wrapper

start Java binary code using a system-wide installed Java RE (JRE, Java Runtime Environment).

Note: There is no JRE distributed/bundled with WA2L/edrc and needs to be installed somewhere on the system.

.perl_wrapper

start Perl script using a system-wide installed Perl interpreter.

.python_wrapper

start Python script using a system-wide installed Python interpreter.

.ksh_wrapper

start Korn- or Bourne-Again (bash) script using ksh or bash depending on availability on the system.

.pf_wrapper

start executable using sudo or pfexec depending on availability/configuration on the system.

.daemon_wrapper

start a daemon-like executable.

daemon

start a daemon-like executable exceptionally not using the .daemon_wrapper.

OPERATINGSYSTEM

a list of operating systems (osid) for which distinct binaries are provided/bundled in/with WA2L/edrc.

This does not necessarily mean, that on operating systems for which the WA2L/edrc does not provide a binary file, the related command cannot be started from within WA2L/edrc.

For a description of this concept in WA2L/edrc, see os_wrapper(1) manual page.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-l

provide list as CSV file format.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage displayed.

FILES

EXAMPLES

1) example cmdlist output:

COMMAND             TYPE  DIR   STARTMODE        OPERATINGSYSTEM
------------------  ----  ----  ---------------  ---------------
ansi2txt            BIN   lib   .os_wrapper
                                                 Linux
                                                 Linux-32
                                                 Linux-64
appendpdf           PSCR  lib   .perl_wrapper    *
apply2file          SCR   bin   direct           *
apply2sw_inventory  SCR   bin   direct           *
apprevision         SCR   lib   direct           *
approot             SCR   lib   direct           *
apropos             SCR   bin   direct           *
asup                SCR   pbin  .pf_wrapper      *
asup                LINK  bin   sat              *
banner              BIN   lib   .os_wrapper
                                                 Linux
                                                 Linux-32
                                                 Linux-64
                                                 Linux-ia
bget                PSCR  lib   .perl_wrapper    *
:
:
expect              BIN   lib   .os_wrapper
                                                 HP-11
                                                 HP-11i
                                                 HP-11ia
                                                 Linux
                                                 Linux-32
                                                 Linux-64
                                                 Linux-ia
                                                 Solaris
                                                 Solaris-x86
fcreate             BIN   lib   .os_wrapper
:
:
zmore               BIN   bin   .os_wrapper
                                                 HP-11
                                                 HP-11i
                                                 HP-11ia
                                                 Linux
                                                 Linux-32
                                                 Linux-64
                                                 Linux-ia
                                                 Solaris
                                                 Solaris-x86
(804)

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