INTRO(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures INTRO(8)

NAME

Intro, intro - introduction to maintenance commands and application
programs

DESCRIPTION

This section describes, in alphabetical order, commands that are used
chiefly for system maintenance and administration purposes.

Because of command restructuring for the Virtual File System
architecture, there are several instances of multiple manual pages
that begin with the same name. For example, the mount, pages -
mount(8), mount_hsfs(8), mount_nfs(8), mount_tmpfs(8), and
mount_ufs(8). In each such case the first of the multiple pages
describes the syntax and options of the generic command, that is,
those options applicable to all FSTypes (file system types). The
succeeding pages describe the functionality of the FSType-specific
modules of the command. These pages list the command followed by an
underscore ( _ ) and the FSType to which they pertain. Note that the
administrator should not attempt to call these modules directly. The
generic command provides a common interface to all of them. Thus the
FSType-specific manual pages should not be viewed as describing
distinct commands, but rather as detailing those aspects of a command
that are specific to a particular FSType.

COMMAND SYNTAX

Unless otherwise noted, commands described in this section accept
options and other arguments according to the following syntax:

name [option(s)] [cmdarg(s)]


where:

name
The name of an executable file.


option
- noargletter(s) or,

- argletter<>optarg

where <> is optional white space.


noargletter
A single letter representing an option without an
argument.


argletter
A single letter representing an option requiring an
argument.


optarg
Argument (character string) satisfying preceding
argletter.


cmdarg
Pathname (or other command argument) not beginning
with - or, - by itself indicating the standard input.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for a discussion of the attributes listed in this
section.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation.
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portions of the system documentation.

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
in the SunOS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition,
Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System
Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6,
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and
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SEE ALSO

getopt(1), getopt(3C), attributes(7)

DIAGNOSTICS

Upon termination, each command returns 0 for normal termination and
non-zero to indicate troubles such as erroneous parameters, bad or
inaccessible data, or other inability to cope with the task at hand.
It is called variously ``exit code,'' ``exit status,'' or ``return
code,'' and is described only where special conventions are involved.

NOTES

Unfortunately, not all commands adhere to the standard syntax.

September 8, 2015 INTRO(8)