Changed User Commands in Section 1

admin(1)

Users can now maintain binary files, such as executable files, in SCCS.

The following options have been added to admin(1):

at(1)

The following option has been added to at(1):

cmp(1)

A new skip feature causes cmp(1) to skip initial bytes in the files.

The new format is:

crontab(1)

The options -l, -r, and -e accept an optional parameter, username, to specify a particular user. Only a user with appropriate privilege can specify username.

csplit(1)

An additional argument {*} has been added to repeat the previous operand as many times as necessary to finish input.

date(1)

The following changes have been made:

dd(1)

Three new options have been added to the dd command: files, iseek, and oseek. The iseek and oseek options have been added as aliases for the skip and seek options, respectively.

diff3(1)

The new -E option produces a script for the editor ed(1) that will incorporate into file1 all changes between file2 and file3, but treat overlapping changes differently. The overlapping lines from both files will be inserted by the edit script, bracketed by <<<<<< and >>>>>> lines.

The new -X option will produce a script that will incorporate only changes flagged ====, and treat these changes in the manner of the -E option.

ex(1)

The new -C option is similar to -x, except that the input file is assumed to have been encrypted.

file(1)

The new -h option instructs the file(1) command not to follow links in the case of files with symbolic links.

find(1)

The following features are added:

The -local option matches files which physically reside on a local file system. Its use can improve performance, because searching is restricted only to files residing on the local file system, ignoring any remotely mounted file systems.

\+ termination of the -exec cmd option (instead of \;) aggregates a set of pathnames and executes cmd on the set. This can vastly improve processing speed.

If the user wishes to change the \; to \+, then the find(1) command output sequence might be different. This is because find \+ passes an aggregated set of pathnames to the command being executed, and the output depends on the way the command handles the aggregated set.

For example, consider the following sequence:

$ mkdir -p tmp/tmp/tmp 
$ touch tmp/foo tmp/tmp/foo1 tmp/tmp/tmp/foo2 
$ find tmp -name foo\* -exec ll {} \; 
-rw-r--r--   1 arvind     users 0 Jan 24 12:01 tmp/tmp/tmp/foo2
-rw-r--r--   1 arvind     users 0 Jan 24 12:01 tmp/tmp/foo1 
-rw-r--r--   1 arvind     users 0 Jan 24 12:01 tmp/foo 

However, if we use \+, the output will be:

$ find tmp -name foo\* -exec ll {} \+ 
-rw-r--r-- 1 arvind    users     0 Jan 24 12:01 tmp/foo 
-rw-r--r-- 1 arvind    users     0 Jan 24 12:01 tmp/tmp/foo1
-rw-r--r-- 1 arvind    users     0 Jan 24 12:01 tmp/tmp/tmp/foo2 

Note the change in the sequence of filenames being printed by find(1). This change in the output sequence of the filenames is because the ll command behaves differently when invoked with multiple pathnames and single pathnames.

finger(1)

The following information has been added to the default output format of finger:

grep(1)

The new -h option suppresses printing of filenames when searching multiple files.

ipcs(1)

The -C and -N options were updated to support multiple dump files within a dump directory:

last(1), lastb(1)

The -f file option uses file as the name of the accounting file instead of /var/adm/wtmp or /var/adm/btmp.

This provides the user with the flexibility to specify a different accounting file instead of the normal /var/adm/wtmp or /var/adm/btmp.

ls(1)

The new lc command version is basically the same as using ls -C in that its output is columnar even when redirected.

make(1)

Here are the new options and suffixes:

man(1)

There are new options -M and -T and new sections local, new, old, and public.

The user can specify any of the new section names, local, new, old, or public, to get a manpage stored in the directories corresponding to the section.

For example,

man public <cmd>

mesg(1)

There are new ways of invoking existing options:

more(1)

Added sequences that can be entered when more pauses:

mt(1)

The new -f option is now the preferred way to specify the name of the tape device. The mt command has also been changed to accept both rew and rewind as the command argument for rewinding the tape.

	NOTE: The -t option is still supported; however, the intent is that -t will become obsolete in a future release. It is recommended that any scripts that use-t be changed to use the -f option.

pg(1)

Here are the new features:

ps(1)

The format of ps -l is different on 64-bit capable machines. The two fields addr and wchan will have a larger field size to accommodate a 64- bit number. Scripts that parse the output of ps -l may have to be modified to account for these larger field sizes.

uname(1)

Beginning at 10.30, the uname(1) command may display an incorrect model on future machines. uname(1) is restricted to eight characters for the model. However some future machines will have more than eight characters for the model. If the model string is longer than eight characters, uname(1) will truncate the model string to eight characters. It is therefore recommended that the model(1) or getconf(1) commands be used to obtain the model string. Refer to “Unified Binary Implementation for HP-UX 11.0” in Chapter 2 for more details.

vi(1)

A new -C option is available, similar to-x except that the input file is assumed to have been encrypted.