List of terminal commands
Clearly there are many possible replies to this but I like these four:
1 - Short list: http://ss64.com/osx/
2 - Long list: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
3 - Use the excellent 'List pages' facility of ManOpen. Each item is a clickable hot link.
4 - Produce your own list:
Open Terminal and paste the following and then type return:
/usr/libexec/makewhatis
Wait for the prompt.
Paste the following and then type return;
apropos ' '
On a basic Leopard installation this produces over 4,000 lines with each line containing one or more manual references. If you want to use the list it may be best to set the terminal to 999 columns before you start. It is easy to page down (shift page-down several times) to the bottom, select all (cmd A), copy (cmd C) and paste into a fast text editor (I still use BBEdit Light).
It is possible, although the mass edits are not trivial, to make each item in this list a hot link with one of the following:
A - HTML: <a href="x-man-page://ls">ls</a> - opens the manual page for ls in your Terminal - should work with most browsers - perhaps try clicking it!
B - Manual page - pity the hot links don't work in the Terminal although they do with several other applications such as ManOpen - see groff_mdoc for further information.
.Dd
.Dt LIST OFLINKS
.Os
.Bl -item -compact
.It
List of Links
.It
.Xr whatis 1
- search the whatis database for complete words
.It
.Xr man 1
- list directory contents
.It
.Xr ls 1
- format and display the on-line manual pages
.It
.Xr groff_mdoc 7
- reference for groff's mdoc implementation
.El
Do others have better ways to view local manual pages with full scroll and hot links?
Xserve and two 733 MHz G4s with Leopard !, Mac OS X (10.5.8)