This page is intended to present the many, many software packages & programs currently installed on SDF, sorted into categories for ease of reference. New users can refer to this file when trying to find programs, and even long-time SDFers can possibly discover something new here.

Note that this list is not expected to contain every single package currently installed. For a complete list of packages on SDF, see here. For a complete list of software that could be installed see here. Software requests are made by making a post on the ‘bboard’ board.

Programs marked “ARPA”, “MetaARPA”, “DBA”, or similar can only be run by users with the specified membership level.

Note: If you are planning on adding to this file, you are advised to follow the recommendations below.

• ce
• ed — the standard text editor
• ee
• emacs
• ex
• hexedit
• jed
• joe
• jove
• mined
• nano
• ne — Cambridge text editor
• nvi
• pico
• uemacs
• ve
• vi
• vile
• vim — Vi IMproved
• zile

• beav
• bvi
• hexedit
• id3
• id3ed
• id3v2
• mp3asm

• alpine
• elm
• mail
• mailto
• mailx
• mm
• mush
• mutt
• nmh
• pine
• rmail
• xmh

• biff — notifies you when new mail arrives
• fetchmail — fetch mail from a remote server
• formail
• frm, nfrm — list From: and Subject: of selected messages in mailbox or folder
• from
• getmail
• imapfilter
• mailstat
• mdfrm — parses Maildir files
• metamail
• metasend
• mhn
• procmail
• sendfiles
• splitmail
• ssmtp

• bash
• csh
• ksh
• ksh93
• mudsh — “M.U.D. game-like shell”
• osh — a port of the Sixth Edition Thompson shell
• pdksh
• rc
• sh
• tcsh
• zsh

• basename
• chflags
• chgrp
• chmod
• colorls — like ls, but with a -G option that enables colorized output
• cp — copy files
• df
• dirname
• du
• file — determine the type of a file
• ln
• ls — list the contents of a directory
• mkdir — create a directory
• mv — move/rename a file
• quota
• readlink
• rm — delete files
• rmdir — delete empty directories
• stat
• touch

• awk
• cat — output the contents of a file
• cmp — display differences between two files byte by byte
• colrm
• column
• comm — display line common to two files
• cut
• dd
• diff — display differences between two files line by line
• diff3 — display differences between three files line by line
• dos2unix — convert CRLF line endings to LF
• expand
• fmt
• fold
• grep — search files for lines matching a pattern
• head — print the first few lines of a file
• hexdump
• indent
• join
• look
• mawk
• merge
• nl — number lines
• od
• par
• paste
• patch — apply the output of a diff command to a file
• pr — format text files for printing
• rev
• sdiff
• sed
• sort — sort lines
• split — split a file into pieces
• states
• tabs
• tail — print the last few lines of a file
• tidy
• tr
• uniq
• unix2dos — convert LF line endings to CRLF
• vis
• wc — count the number of bytes, characters, words, and/or lines in a file
• xxd

• dillo — only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts
• elinks
• links
• lynx
• w3m

• Pnews (ARPA)
• nn (ARPA)
• pine (ARPA)
• rn (ARPA)
• slrn (ARPA)
• tin (ARPA)
• trn (ARPA)

• curl
• ftp (ARPA)
• gopher
• kermit (ARPA)
• ncftpget (ARPA)
• rcp
• rsync (MetaARPA)
• scp — copy files between machines using SSH (ARPA)
• sftp — secure file transfer protocol (ARPA)
• snarf (ARPA)
• sz, rz, sb, rb, sx, rx
• tftp (ARPA)
• unison (MetaARPA)
• uucp
• wget (ARPA)

• 6tunnel — tunnel IPv6 connections over IPv4
• cidr
• cu
• dig
• geoip
• host — get the IP address for a domain name or vice versa
• jwhois
• ldapsearch
• netstat
• nmap
• nslookup
• ping
• ruptime
• sipcalc
• traceroute — follow the path packets take to a remote host
• uux
• whois
• yuptime
• yusers
• ywho

• dict — DICT protocol client
• rlogin (ARPA)
• rsh
• ssh (ARPA)
• telnet (ARPA)
• tn3270

• bitchx (ARPA)
• bsflite — AIM client (ARPA)
• centerim (ARPA)
• climm — ICQ client (ARPA)
• epic — IRC client (ARPA)
• finch — IRC client; only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts (ARPA)
• irssi — IRC client (MetaARPA)
• naim — AIM client (ARPA)
• ninja (ARPA)
• profanity — IRC client (MetaARPA)
• scrollz — IRC client (ARPA)
• sic (ARPA)
• silc (ARPA)
• tac (ARPA)
• ttytter — terminal-based Twitter client (ARPA)
• xaric — IRC client (ARPA)
• ysm — ICQ client (ARPA)

• mesg
• talk
• wall
• write
• ytalk

• finger
• groups
• id
• logname
• whoami

• date
• domainname
• hostname
• machine
• uname
• uptime
• users

• env
• kill
• killall
• lsof
• nice
• nohup
• pkill
• printenv
• ps
• pstree — display a tree of processes
• time — time how long it takes a program to run
• top (MetaARPA)
• w
• watch — watch a program with update intervals
• who

• c++ (ARPA)
• c89 (wrapper around cc)
• cc (ARPA)
• clisp (MetaARPA)
• distcc
• distccd
• g++ — GNU C++ compiler (ARPA)
• g77
• gcc — GNU C compiler (ARPA)
• jikes (MetaARPA)
• nasm (MetaARPA)

• cint — C interpreter
• hugs — Haskell interpreter
• java (MetaARPA)
• kaffe (MetaARPA)
• lisp (MetaARPA; wrapper around uxlisp)
• perl — pathologically eclectic rubbish lister practical extraction & report language (ARPA)
• php — PHP: hypertext preprocessor (ARPA)
• python (ARPA)
• ruby (ARPA)

• cvs
• git (MetaARPA)
• hg
• rcs
• sccs
• svn (MetaARPA)

• ant (MetaARPA)
• as (ARPA)
• asp2php
• autoconf
• automake
• bison — GNU yacc
• chicken
• cim
• cook
• cpp — C preprocessor
• cscope
• flex — GNU lex (ARPA)
• gcov
• gdb — GNU debugger
• gmake
• gprof
• ld (ARPA)
• lex (ARPA)
• lint
• m4
• make (ARPA)
• mkdep
• phpize
• yacc — yet another compiler compiler (ARPA)

• cksum
• gpg
• md5
• openssl
• pgp5
• sha1
• sum

• 2vcard
• antiword
• asciidoc
• catdoc
• hevea
• latex2rtf
• makeinfo
• pdftohtml
• pdftotext
• richtext
• rtf2html
• rtf2LaTeX
• rtf2text
• rtf2troff
• texi2dvi
• troffcvt
• xlhtml

• aetar
• ar
• bsdtar
• bzip2
• compress
• cpio
• freeze
• gtar
• gzip
• lzop
• mousetar
• pax
• shar
• tar
• zip
• znew
• zoo

• caesar
• iconv
• mimencode
• rot13
• uuencode
• yencode

• mc
• vfu
• vifm

• Manpages & *roff
  • colcrt
  • eqn
  • groff
  • groffer
  • grog
  • grotty
  • nroff
  • pic
  • refer
  • tbl
  • troff
  • vgrind
• PostScript & PDFs
  • abcm2ps — “Converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript format”
  • diffpp
  • enscript
  • gs (ps2pdf, ps2ascii, pdf2ps, epstopdf, etc.)
  • ps2eps
  • psnup
  • yup
• TeX, LaTeX, etc.
  • dvipdf
  • dvips
  • etex
  • latex
  • lgrind
  • mf
  • mktexmf
  • mktexpk
  • mpost
  • pdfetex
  • pslatex
  • tex

• xmllint
• xmlto
• xsltproc

• less
• more
• most
• pg

• adv770
• animal — the computer tries to guess what animal you're thinking of
• atc — air traffic controller game
• backgammon — the game of backgammon; play against the computer or a friend
• battlestar — “a tropical [text] adventure game”
• bluemoon — one of many solitaire card games
• boggle
• c4 — Connect Four
• canfield — the solitaire card game canfield
• cribbage — the card game cribbage (played against the computer)
• dinkum — an Australian text-adventure game
• dopewars
• dungeon
• fish — Go Fish
• gnuchess4
• hack
• knight — Knight's Tour — move the knight to visit every square on the board
• larn — “exploring the caverns of Larn”
• mdg
• monop — Monopoly
• moon-buggy
• moria
• motti
• nethack
• netris — “A free networked version of T*tris”
• nobs — cribbage game
• phantasia
• robots
• robots2
• rogue
• saa — play the solitaire card game “streets and alleys”
• ski — “an unusual skiing simulation game”
• snake
• sokoban
• tetris
• thxmoo
• tttt — 4×4 Tic-Tac-Toe with wraparound edges
• wand
• worm
• wump — Hunt the Wumpus
• zombies

(Things otherwise classified as games but without a goal or in which the user doesn’t really do anything)

• anagram — search the dictionary for anagrams of a word
• arithmetic — quiz on simple arithmetic
• autopun — “Phonetically Reparse an English Phrase”
• aybabtu — ASCII recreation of the ZeroWing opening sequence
• banner
• bcd
• cookie
• countmail — a program for laughing at the size of your inbox
• cowsay — an ASCII cow says stuff
• crypto — “a program to generate and/or solve cryptograms”
• cursive
• dive
• factor
• figlet
• fortune
• macarena — the horror… the horror…
• macarena1 — the horror revisited
• morse
• number — convert Arabic numerals to English
• phoon — shows the phase of the moon ¹⁾ with an ASCII image
• pig — anslatetray exttay intoway Igpay Atinlay
• pom — display the phase of the moon
• ppt
• primes
• quiz — “random knowledge tests”
• rain — animated ASCII raindrops on a terminal
• sonnet
• suicide
• suicide1
• suicide2
• suicide3
• wargames
• worms — animate worms on a terminal
• wtf

• frotz
• tf

• bc
• dc
• gnuplot
• mathomatic
• sc-im — vim-like spreadsheet calculator

• ImageMagick (animate, compare, composite, conjure, convert, display, identify, import, mogrify, montage, stream)
• compface
• gif2png, web2png — convert GIFs to PNGs
• jhead — digital camera JPEG exif header manipulation tool
• netpbm
• povray

• enchant
• hunspell
• ispell

• calendar
• leave
• remind
• todo

(MetaARPA membership required)

• bitmap
• ico
• imake
• luit
• mwm
• resize
• startx
• twm
• xcalc
• xclock
• xeyes
• xgamma
• xlsfonts
• xman
• xmh
• xsnow
• xterm

• mysql (DBA)
• psql (DBA)
• sqlite (DBA)
• sqlite3 (DBA)

• r2e
• snownews (ARPA)

• clear — clear the screen
• lock — reserve a terminal
• stty — set various options for the current terminal
• tput
• tset
• tty — give the name of your terminal

• apropos — search for programs by keywords in documentation
• ascii
• info
• man — view the manual page for a command
• pinfo — like info, but better
• vilearn
• vimtutor
• whatis — get a brief description of a command

• find — search a directory tree for files that match given criteria (MetaARPA)
• locate — search a database of files for ones with the given name
• whereis
• which — locate a program in your PATH

• Only programs that are located in the default users’ PATH should be listed here; i.e., user-written software in /sys/sdf/bin should be left out.
• Custom commands specific to SDF should be left out. There is already a list of them here, or here.
• Make sure that a program is currently installed by seeing whether it exists in the PATH (e.g., with “command -v program” or “finbin program”). There are many programs that don’t have manual pages, and in some cases there may be manual pages left behind from old programs that were uninstalled.
• While you don’t have to, it would be nice if you included a brief description of what each command does along with a link to its official project page (if any).
• Be sure to list membership requirements for programs that only ARPA or MetaARPA users can run.
• Try to only list programs that fall into a specific category. You may add a new category if you feel one is needed, but only if you can find more than one program that fits into the new category (three or four programs seems like a good minimum, but we won’t force you to follow this rule).
• If you don’t know what a program does (at least not well enough to place it into a category), don’t add it.
• If several closely-related programs come together as part of the same package (e.g., strfile and unstr with fortune, or all of the GhostScript programs), only give the name of the main program.
• If a program currently just doesn’t work (e.g., hnb), don’t list it here.

This wiki page was reviewed with the Plan 9 abaco, and mothra, browsers.
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