MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

intro(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities intro(1)
See Also
The SEE ALSO section refers to other man pages that may contain information relevant to the
man page you have just read. For example, consider the compress command; this command
helps you shrink data files into a compact form to save storage space. Its SEE ALSO section
refers you to uncompress(1), the command that restores shrunken data files to their original
state.
Permuted Index
The permuted index is not really part of the manual pages, but rather a guide to the manual
pages. It precedes the Index at the end of each volume of the MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Ref-
erence Manual. The permuted index helps you explore
MPE/iX Shell and Utilities and what its
commands can do for you.
Each line in the permuted index is taken from the title of a manual page. The words of the
title are shifted to get entries for the index. For example, the title of the comm manual page is
comm - compare sorted files and show differences
This produces the following permuted index entries:
show differences/ comm - compare sorted files and
differences/ compare sorted files and show
compare sorted files and show differences
compare sorted files and show differences
compare sorted files and show differences
compare sorted files and show differences
Notice that there is a gap in the middle of each line. The permuted index is sorted by the word
that comes after this gap. Also notice that the end of the original title line is marked with a
slash (/) when it doesn’t appear at the end of the index line.
The permuted index lets you look up commands according to key words in their title lines.
For example, suppose you want to compare two files and want to know which commands do
this. Looking up the word compare in the permuted index, we find several entries:
differences/ compare sorted files and show
compare three text files
minimal differences/ compare two text files and show
binary comparison of two files
Each of these index entries is associated with a manual page (given at the end of the index
entry line). By looking at the title lines, you should be able to determine which command
does what you want and go directly to the appropriate manual page.
Commands and Utilities 1-7