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Software Packages on SDF by Category
Software Packages on SDF by Category
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.
Text Editors
Binary File Editors
- beav
- bvi
- hexedit
- id3
- id3ed
- id3v2
- mp3asm
E-mail Clients
Mail-Processing & Other Mail-Related Programs
- 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
Shells
- 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
Filesystem Utilities
- 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
File Processing & Filtering
- 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
Web Browsers
Newsreaders
- Pnews (ARPA)
- nn (ARPA)
- pine (ARPA)
- rn (ARPA)
- slrn (ARPA)
- tin (ARPA)
- trn (ARPA)
File Transfer & Retrieval Programs
- 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)
Network Utilities
- 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
Remote Networking
- dict — DICT protocol client
- rlogin (ARPA)
- rsh
- ssh (ARPA)
- telnet (ARPA)
- tn3270
Chat-System Clients
- 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)
- scrollz — IRC client (ARPA)
- sic (ARPA)
- silc (ARPA)
- tac (ARPA)
- ttytter — terminal-based Twitter client (ARPA)
- xaric — IRC client (ARPA)
- ysm — ICQ client (ARPA)
Inter-user Communication Software
- mesg
- talk
- wall
- write
- ytalk
User Information
- finger
- groups
- id
- logname
- whoami
System Information
- date
- domainname
- hostname
- machine
- uname
- uptime
- users
Process Information & Control
- 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
Compilers
- 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)
Programming Language Interpreters & Virtual Machines
- 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)
Version Control Systems
Miscellaneous Software Development Programs
- 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)
Encryption & Cryptography Programs
- cksum
- gpg
- md5
- openssl
- pgp5
- sha1
- sum
File Format Converters (non-image)
File Archival & Compression Utilities
- aetar
- ar
- bsdtar
- bzip2
- compress
- cpio
- freeze
- gtar
- gzip
- lzop
- mousetar
- pax
- shar
- tar
- zip
- znew
- zoo
File Encoding
- caesar
- iconv
- mimencode
- rot13
- uuencode
- yencode
File Managers
Typesetting
- 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
XML Processing Programs
Text File Pagers
Games
- 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
Diversions
(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 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
Game Interpreters & Clients
Mathematical & Statistical Programs
Image Creation, Conversion, & Manipulation
- 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
Spellcheckers
Productivity & Reminder Software
X11 Programs
(MetaARPA membership required)
- bitmap
- ico
- imake
- luit
- mwm
- resize
- startx
- twm
- xcalc
- xclock
- xeyes
- xgamma
- xlsfonts
- xman
- xmh
- xsnow
- xterm
Database Programs
Feed Readers
Terminal Management Programs
- 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
Information & Help
- 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
Finding Files & Programs
- 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
Guidelines for Maintaining This File
- 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.
- 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.
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